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Anonymous
The restroom where I work has a handful of these on the ceiling. The room is very small, maybe 7 by 7 feet, and about 11 feet high.

I am afraid when I poop they will jump on me and bite the crap out of me, just being in the restroom with them freaks me out, but I would like to keep them there to stop mosquitos/flys from coming in. It isnt a closed inside area so all sorts of things fly in there. Are these type of spiders violent? And also, if they start mass producing should I clean out the webs or should I do it before their spawns of satan get unleashed?
>> Anonymous
Violent? I have yet to meet a spider that didn't turn and run when I got close. Except really big ones. They seem to "stand their ground" a bit longer. I've seen spiders like the ones in your pic before in park bathrooms. Just don't piss it off and you don't have anything to worry about.
>> pureface
those are not violent. they can't even break the skin. i have hundreds in my basement.
>> Anonymous
Are you kidding? Those are about the most docile spiders I've ever seen, they just chill in their web and eat little gnats and shit. Let 'em be.
>> Anonymous
nah. these are cellar spiders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_spider

harmless. and VERY beneficial. these actually prey on the more dangerous spiders like black widows and recluses as well as mosquitos and such.
>> Anonymous
I've never understood why so many people seem to think that the most spiders are insanely aggressive and dangerous creatures.
>> Anonymous
I don't get how anyone can be afraid of spiders around here. I live in north western Germany, we don't have anything dangerous here. Especially not spiders. At most it could amass to the equivalent of a bee sting, or so I'm told, because no one ever gets bitten. I haven't, and i don't know anyone who has, or knows anybody else whose cousin knows someone who might have.
Then out of the six snakes in Germany, two are venomous, but neither lethal and both nearly extinct. I've never seen a single Snake in Germany, and i think they don't even exist up here.
So our most dangerous animal remains the tick which might carry Meningoencephalitis or Lyme disease, and the last years have seen a spurt inoak processonaries whose larvae have toxic bristles which bring asthma and rashes.
Oh, apparently some joggers got attacked by hawks defending their nest this year!