Have we talked about spiders?

I do not relocate black widow spiders.  Too many grandchildren nosing around to risk one getting bitten.  I haven't seen any brown recluse, but they would get the same fate.  Wolf spiders get a pass.  

We have black widows and they have an INCREDIBLE FONDNESS for disc brake assemblies.  You know, a thing you interact with often and has a E36 M3 ton of tiny openings a spider can hide in? Every single vent in the rotor?  If i bring in a car i havent just driven in from another location i just use a lighter and some brake fluid to do a quick flame cleanse and I OFTEN see dead black widows fall out. I don't kill much unnecessarily but I'm not putting myself through that if i dont have to. 

I love Spiders. 

My brother got bit by  a brown recluse when rebuilding steps at home.  He went to a doctor who looked at it, drew a circle around the red mark and said "If the redness gets outside of the circle, give me a call back".  It went outside before he even got home and went tight back.

Doctor gave him a shot of novacane (it was on the ribcage), whipped out a scalpel and started cutting before the novacane kicked in.  He made a cut and stuffed it full of cotton balls.

Mark now contracts all that stuff out .....

Just found this one in my son's room 

It's a Costa Rican stripe knee. Probably around the same size as the spider in the original post.

In reply to Feedyurhed :

Best way to keep spiders away? Fill a sprayer ( I use a tank type sprayer I can pump up and shoot a stream of soapy water a long way.  )  with soapy water. Spray it everyplace spiders go.  You'll need to respray  after heavy rains but eventually they will give your place a wide berth. 
On the other hand now you will get other bugs.  Soap does nothing to ants or cock roaches etc. 

Those bugs need more toxic solutions

We have a permanent spider on our door. Goth-Wife dresses it up depending on the season. Here it was around Christmas. 

I used to be crazy afraid of spiders but have since made friends with them. We always have a few orb weavers on the upper corners of the porch and they generally keep to themselves. Brown recluses and black widows get dispatched with extreme prejudice unfortunately. It’s for the safety of our dogs and cats. 

I believe the spider from the first post is a Fishing Spider, they get pretty big but are general harmless to humans. 
 

I try to go by live and let live when it comes to anything other then stink bugs, lantern flies, and ants in the house. I catch and release all other insects and critters. 

I leave Wolf Spiders and Huntsman spiders (Crab spiders) alone.  The wolf spiders that patrol outside my garage can be pretty aggressive, but they're mostly harmless.  

I really like the crab/Huntsman spiders that live in and around my garage. They're HUGE, but they they eat all kinds of pests.  This is Henry, he's usually just outside the door.  I'm 99% sure he'd let me pick him up, but I don't think I'll try.  They rarely make it inside the house, but if they do I do my best to safely relocate them back to the garage.  

Black Widows and Brown widows get sprayed with bug killer.  No exceptions.

I once took a trip through the Blue Ridge Parkway. Stayed in a decent "cabin motel" place with a restaurant with a killer view. 

I'm getting ready to go to bed and my dog is staring the hell out of a corner of the room with a chair in it. 

I move the chair and holy E36 M3 there was an almost tarantula-sized (Wolf spider maybe?) that must have been super pregnant or whatever.

I call the front office and they sound pissed off but will send someone.

5  minutes the motel dude shows up. I show him the spider. His eyes get BIG. I suggested a vacuum cleaner might work.

10 minutes later he shows up and I'll never forget the sound of that spider getting sucked into the vacuum: " whaaaaSLORPhrrrTHUMPwhaaaa!"

I spent the next hour going over the entire room. 

The dude said lots of people complain about spiders but he had never seen anything like that before.

Meet Agnes. 
 

She might catch small birds. 
 

A co-worker emailed me and mentioned that she had stepped on a large spider.

I asked if she needed any assistance finding a replacement.