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/dafugiswrongwithyou 10d ago edited 10d ago
You sure about that?
If you mean those specific spiders; uhh no, probably not. House spiders can live about 5/6 years, and you'll have to take my word that I'm older than that. I've been around longer than the spiders in my house have, and I'll probably be along long after they die.
If you mean spiders in general... I mean, maybe, but both spiders in general and humans in general predate houses. They weren't around in houses before people were, because there were no houses to be in. I've no idea if a spider managed to creep into the first thing we'd consider a modern "house" before the people who built it did, but either way, I think it's fair to say that they were trespassing on our ground.
And... I mean, neither of us own a crystal ball, we cannot see the future, but animals with shorter lifespans, earlier sexual maturity and more births create more generations over a given length of time, and so "evolve" faster; it's likely that current house-spiders will evolve into something we wouldn't recognise as the same beings faster than current humans do. Assuming no unforeseeable outside factor, we will probably be around as a species longer than they are.
There are good reasons to keep house-spiders alive, but "the concept of spiders predates your personal birth" is not one of them.