Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 24, 2021

Spiders are harmless and wont bite you unless threatened.

Ah, yes. The spider dance. I’ve done it before.

I know, but walking into a web is still disturbing.

♬ I don’t like spiders and snakes

And that ain’t what it takes to love me

Like I want to be loved by you ♪♩

– Jim Stafford, Spiders and Snakes

That’s what I don’t like about riding lead on a trail ride.

The Spiderweb Dance or “Semaphore for Rookies.”

Of course, it’s not all about the poison. A roach up the pants leg does about the same thing.

Spiders don’t bother me as a whole. It’s the really big invisible spiders that put their webs between the trees that will get you.

Just reading this comic gives me a creepy-crawly feeling…

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There’s a spider living in fields in Texas. Sometimes the entire field seemed like it was covered with webs. Quite beautiful when they were covered with morning dew. The spiders who spun the webs were big suckers, brightly striped but totally non-aggressive.

If a spider bites me I hope it is the one that bit the kid into Spider Man!

They forget that last part sometimes but they usually are harmless…..

Wigged out Arlo is hilarious.

When we lived in south Texas, we had the occasional golden orb spinner spider lay up a beautiful meter-wide web with golden filaments between trees or posts. One morning my wife rushed out the door for a tennis match and straight into one of these webs, which are strong enough to stop a small bird. Boy, howdy, was there some excitement for a few minutes! Tennis bag went one way, water bottle and purse another and the whoopin’ and hollerin’ woke the neighbors.

What about ‘the only good spider is a dead spider’???

Alcohol and spider webs are things that help people dance.

I don’t like spiders in the house much because they will bite you when you sleep. However, when I find them in the house, I trap them in a jar and transport them to the garden where they belong.

Once, years ago had a brown recluse (Michigan) bite my knee cap. Took months to fully heal. Never saw the spider but my doc assured me it had to be a brown recluse. Michigan has some black widows but more brown recluse.

thank god for pesticides, here in Vegas have brown, recluse and camel spiders plus the additional bonus of scorpions. as far as being benign that has not been my experience.

In the category of ‘If it doesn’t kill you, it only makes you stronger,’ this fall I get to add being stung nine times when a yellowjacket(s) got into/under my shirt while I was mowing the yard. Pretty much before I knew what was going on (and dashed inside to remove clothing) their work on me was done. My reaction was not great and my back looked awful.

Banana spiders love to capture humans in huge webs in the fall.

That is my dance for anything that resembles anything like a bee. Including the hair.

When we lived in Texas, I would go shoot photos with abandoned houses at night. There was some kind of huge spider that spun webs hanging from trees, and they hung in those webs at night. I always looked carefully before going under any tree.

I don’t mind the web, I just can’t stand the spider itself. I have a special kind of squeaky scream when I see one at home that will bring my husband armed with a rolled up magazine.

This is one reason cowboys wear hats with a full brim. There are few things as simultaneously suspenseful and aggravating as having a spider go down inside your collar. Even the tiniest ones might leave a bite that swells and aches for days.

Spiders eat the insects most gardeners do not like. And they make such beautiful silk cathedrals to their prey.

Just don’t antagonize them. Some are more inclined to bite than others.