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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
There's been a nest of black widows somewhere in the house. Normally I'd live and let live with them because they help keep down the flies, but I have cats and a dog and while they might not be deadly to me, they are to them so they meet a sad end with the vacuum.
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I wouldn't assume they couldn't be deadly to you. That venom is 10 times more powerful than a rattlesnake's. You can't have those in your house. Same with the brown recluse. You just cannot afford to be bitten. I was talking about wolf spiders and the kind that spin a little web in the corner. They're harmless and keep down the vermin.
Spiders in the house are self-regulating. They go after the pests and, if they do too good of a job, will turn on each other so they won't overpopulate. I had a buddy who bought a house with so many spiders he began wiping them out. The walls were actually covered with silk. I knew his property needed to be condemned because you normally just can't get that many spiders because they'll devour each other. Since they weren't then it meant he had a
bad insect infestation. Killing the spiders would only reveal that to him and it did. He moved out and let the bank foreclose on the house. It's still standing though and that was over a decade ago.