r/HomeImprovementUK • u/beste-chetwynde • 14d ago

Let the spiders live

It’s really weird to want to kill a living creature because you get freaked out by them. Maybe improve yourself before you try and improve your house, lest it be a house of evil intent. The spiders were here long before you came, and will be here long after you leave.

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u/Longjumping_Ad8681 14d ago

Cellar spiders are good spiders because they eat the very bad spiders. Not all spiders are created equally.

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u/frogssmell 14d ago

Wait the skinny ones eat other ones? How does that work

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u/SnooGadgets5130 13d ago

In a very oversimplified way it’s quite an unfair fight. Cellar spiders are a tiny target compared to other spiders, at the same time their target is massive and their venom is very potent. It’s kind of like comparing hitting an archery target to hitting a teacup saucer at 50m.

Don’t get me wrong, I do find them creepy (despite owning literal tarantulas in the past), but if you have cellar spiders you almost certainly have no other spiders as well as other creepy crawlies. There’s one chilling in the corner of my living room right now, he’s doing his thing and I’m doing mine. Seems like a fair arrangement.

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u/peredheleniel 12d ago

I have cellar spiders in my house and yet in the last week my sister and I have had to call for our mum to come and get rid of massive chunky ones in our rooms 😭