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Anonymous
I have an entire ecosystem in my shop.

My problem is that my doors are made out of plywood, and over the years one of them has warped, so that there's a crack in it big enough for the dog to go in and out of.
I used to have tons of roaches in there, but now I have these guys.
Pros:
No more roaches, or any other destructive insects.

They stay where they are, and don't fly around or scurry across the floor.

They directly compete with black widows, meaning I don't have any of those either.

Cons:
They build a web and if it doesn't catch anything they just leave it there, most spiders will eat their web if they abandon it. As a result of this, there's spider webs everywhere. They catch metal dust and become big wads in all the cracks and corners and everywhere. Craneflies get stuck in them and die there. My ceiling looks like "DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH DEAD CRANEFLIES QUEEN OF SPIDERS?"

Every time I put on my work gloves I have to check and see if there's a spider in there first.
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>> Anonymous
You have some good points there.

I'm deadly afraid of spiders. Just thinking about those things crawling inside my apartment gives me sleepless nights, at the same time fur beetles can run rampant. What the hell, spiders are actually useful, and none of them here are venomous or even harmful.
>> Anonymous
"DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH DEAD CRANEFLIES QUEEN OF SPIDERS?"
You win, good sir, I am still snickering.
>> Anonymous
>"DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH DEAD CRANEFLIES QUEEN OF SPIDERS?"

:D
>> Anonymous
why not just patch up the hole? jeez
>> Anonymous
>>84964
That would involve walling in one of the doors, I am planning on doing that.
>> Anonymous
>>84956
Seconded. For some reason that really made me laugh and is still making me laugh.
>> Anonymous
Seems like you have a mutually beneficial relationship going with the spiders. I mean, roaches are a fucking pain to get rid of, yet the spiders sound like they're doing a far better job than anything short of full-blown fumigation would do. It's kind of like how in an agrarian context there'd be a bunch of semi-feral cats living in barns and such, keeping the mouse and rat populations in check. Only with roaches and spiders.

Sounds like a sweet deal, long as they're not the kind of spider that'll bite you and then you have to get your leg amputated. The spider population will balance itself out eventually... what's their lifespan anyway, a few years tops?