I am not a big fan of spiders, especially when they are bigger than one centimeter, but below that size, I keep them around the house. I keep them to ensure they eat the smaller insects in the house, which I am not able to see. It makes me feel a bit better. If anyone has objections to keeping this little spider in the house, please let me know now, but I think they don't bite.
However, I have to mention that when I was much younger, maybe seven years old, my parents once wanted me to get over my spider fear and gave me a rolled newspaper and told me to kill this giant spider. I never did; I just stood there and cried until my parents realized how stubborn I was. I still fear big spiders, but hey, I don't care; I just run away. Why harm them?
What you see is obviously not a spider's web; this is just the window mesh. It took many shouts to actually pin point the constantly moving spider around and to properly focus. I think out of twenty, I salvaged one photo, and even then I had to sharpen the image.
Aside: I've always been interested in the design of spider webs. Always wonder about the beginnings of the web—that first string that they are able to latch a meter away. Well, let me tell you again: all it takes is some luck and wind. To conclude, don't you just love when you walk unexpectedly into a spider web and then all day try to wipe your head, thinking the spider is still there? I call this paranoia.
Aside, a blogger from Pet Monologues used one of my images from the post We Are Family Of The Bearded Dragons in his post. Feel free to check it out.
~ Anna
However, I have to mention that when I was much younger, maybe seven years old, my parents once wanted me to get over my spider fear and gave me a rolled newspaper and told me to kill this giant spider. I never did; I just stood there and cried until my parents realized how stubborn I was. I still fear big spiders, but hey, I don't care; I just run away. Why harm them?
What you see is obviously not a spider's web; this is just the window mesh. It took many shouts to actually pin point the constantly moving spider around and to properly focus. I think out of twenty, I salvaged one photo, and even then I had to sharpen the image.
Aside: I've always been interested in the design of spider webs. Always wonder about the beginnings of the web—that first string that they are able to latch a meter away. Well, let me tell you again: all it takes is some luck and wind. To conclude, don't you just love when you walk unexpectedly into a spider web and then all day try to wipe your head, thinking the spider is still there? I call this paranoia.
~ Anna
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- Priyank
Your picture looks very much like our harmless wolf spiders.
Btw many of the little spiders, such as our button spiders are very venomous, but then I do not know anything about the spiders in Canada, or if you even get them there. Most of our large spiders just look fierce.
I liked your post. I hate spiders and I don't care how small or big they are - they will be killed immediately....sorry to all the spider lovers!
After living so many years in the tropics I'm happy NOT to see any one of these "beasts" up here more north in Charleston. :-)
Hope they sleep with their mouth closed!
By the way - If you, Anna or anyone else here visits my site using a screen resolution of anything smaller than 1280 X 800, I would be interested in knowing if my photos and two sidebars display correctly for you. I intend for all photos displayed on my site to be contained within the content area. Also my two sidebars are supposed to be next to each other, not one above the other. Thanks!
~JD
Australian spiders are amazing. Remind me to tell you about the ``huntsmen'' spiders that cause all sorts of dramas when they emerge from airconditioning vents in cars ....
Cindy at Rosehaven Cottage
I leave the little ones alone also. They don't bug me too much. Every once in a while one will bite me in my sleep, I guess I have sweet blood.
Now you chose to scare us all. I might climb mountains without fear, but a spider is another dish for me.
But is a good photo indeed, against the regular monotone little squares.
Are you still doing Tai Chi and martial arts?
I did this myself for twenty years.
I still pass by the dojo few times a month but i am more taken with photography lately.
Great post and photo!!! Sometimes outside after a rain, you can see many spider webs you wouldn't normally see glistening in the sun. How beautiful.
Hugs, JJ
Thanks for your visit today, and a bigger thanks for all the comment s you wrote... nice to know my post can hold folks interest.
But I prefer to stay far if they are too big.
About my Hyenas:I didn't write all the story.I switched off the lamp,and a perfect darkness covered the camp.And I began to count the seconds,to see how long I could face them in the night.
I have to say I arrived to 12 seconds,then I switched on...And they was in the same position.
Ciao
This post hit a note with me, because spiders are my weakness - I hate them. Nothing makes me jump like a black widow. I once caught one crawling across my son's bed. Yikes! Another time I found one underneath the end-table on my side of the bed. Dang! You can have nightmares thinking about those pesky little things bitting you in the middle of the night.
Nice post. And very good picture.
We are fortunate to have not too many, but I guess in your case if you get an army going in, then there is no choice to strike back with the weapon. We do that all the time with ants. This is something we need to worry, lol. Sorry about your mother in law. I quickly scanned internet for photo on bites, scary thougth. Thanks again for your kind comments. Anna :)
Thanks for all your nice comments again on my blogs.
At my house we don't see so many spiders because mom has a pest control service that comes to get the spiders. I wish we could keep the spiders because I like to catch them myself!
We found a really cool spider in our backyard late last year, which I still need to post....but this one could have been poisonous we think! I'll post it soon.
Have a great day!
--JB
Actually, I'm a lover of any spider that can not kill or maime us humans.
This little piece by an unknown author was recited to me as a kid. We followed suit and told our children as well. This is the reason I love Eensy Weensy Spiders.
"The eensy weensy spider
Crawled up the water spout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the eensy weensy spider
Crawled up the spout again."
Take Care,
Peter - aka - Daddy Long Legs!
That's a cool picture of a spider. Even though I usually hate spiders, the one on the pic actually looks a bit cute... !
Thanks for the comments you've given me, :), and thanks for linking to my site!! Appreciate it a lot!
One year we had so many daddy-long-legs in our house that there was nothing to do but sing to them when one got up at night to use the bathroom and there they were, dancing all over the tiled wall. Yuck.
I too, have often wondered how spiders can intuitively construct such brilliantly engineered webs! And I do hate when I get one of them right across the face!
One year we had so many daddy-long-legs in our house that there was nothing to do but sing to them when one got up at night to use the bathroom and there they were, dancing all over the tiled wall. Yuck.
I too, have often wondered how spiders can intuitively construct such brilliantly engineered webs! And I do hate when I get one of them right across the face!
Yea, spiders can web creativity in our minds too...lol
I don’t hate spiders at all; I also cannot say that I specially love them but I admire them very much. I admire to their ability to produce their silk, so thin but so strong, and to make their webs the perfect way.
I actually love spiders! I have no problems with them; I even let two of them weave a web in my bedroom's balcony, last year, cause they would catch all the flies (it was a hot summer, and for the first time we had no wind in our area, so flies decided to drop in lol)! That way I didn't need to use pesticides (which I hate).
This spider photo is absolutely gorgeous: I loved it :D! You are talented, dear :)!
LOL LOL I know that kind of paranoia, it is terrible LOL *nodding*! It is like when we see a bug in our hair, and we won't rest until we wash our hair LOL...
Cheers
Love the "web" also not keen on spiders especially the big ones.
Enjoyed your post!
Kathy
I do however live by a self imposed code that all living things have safe passage through my house, no matter how scared I am of them! When there is a stubborn spider who insists on living with us I try and strike a deal with them....stay out of my bedroom and I will leave you alone, venture into the bedroom and you will be relocated to the garden!
We get tonnes of grass spiders in our house in the summer and autumn and every morning we usually have to rescue 2-3 before we can have a shower! (I don't wash them down the plug hole and these would not fit anyway!)
Bye for now!
**Shudder** When I was a small child I was picking lying on the grass and went to reach for something beside a shed. There was an enormous spider the size of a VW Bug right in front of my eyes (ok it wasn’t quite that big but it was close). For weeks I had nightmares about it shooting web into my eyes!
Of course now I am fine with them… Did I mention that when my wife finds a dead spider around the house she picks it up and chases me around the house while I scream like a schoolgirl? (I didn’t mention it because it never happens, *looking over both shoulders*). For Christmas my brother in-law gave me a large spider with a soft fuzzy green body and black legs that move around independently… (He’s a lawyer…my brother in-law not the spider but….)
When a large spider make sits way into the house that is when I miss my good old friend Kimba, although as a dog she loved to eat spiders there were even some she wouldn’t touch!
Thanks for placing this in the theater of my mind…. LOL LOL
**Shudder**
Ok all that being said, I do appreciate what spiders do and don’t like to hurt them, but sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do, get the vacuum out…
Hugs, JJ
"sorry for the late reply. Max you are a brave girl. When I was young and we had many around us, someone always had to relocate them for me, I could never stand the big ones, just something about the big ones, lol." - It is quite ok, dear; cause I know how busy one can get :D! lol I am a bit brave, I must agree with you lol. LOL so, you have issues with the big ones, huh? That is funny...do you scream when you see them?
"But you are right, they take care of the flies, as opposed to us breathing the pesticides also and poisoning ourselves little by little - if it is not good for the bugs, cannot be good for us too." - true that! I hate pesticides and I don't use them in my house...I refuse to kill myself little by little *nodding*...
"Thanks again Max, I forgot the bug paranoia too, I get those in my hair all the time when gardening, lol. I will see you soon Max" - lol the worse kind of paranoia lol....I see you soon, darling :)!
It was a pleasure :D!
Cheers
You said: 'lol I am a bit brave, I must agree with you lol. LOL so, you have issues with the big ones, huh? That is funny...do you scream when you see them?' - not really, I think I go in shock, lol. I think my body shows more than my mouth expresses, okay ocassionally I say bad words, lol.
You said: 'I refuse to kill myself little by little *nodding*...' - yes me too, that's my girl!
You said: 'It was a pleasure :D!' - in deed it is mine too. Anna :)
"I just noticed I did not answer you to this one, lol." - it got lost, huh? In the middle of all the messages :)....
"not really, I think I go in shock, lol. I think my body shows more than my mouth expresses, okay ocassionally I say bad words, lol." - LOL LOL naughty naughty...saying bad words LOL ;)
"yes me too, that's my girl!" - :D
Cheers