Arachnophobia anyone?

I suppose it's my imagination to blame when I get creeped by just looking at a picture, or even imagining a spider crawling on my face, perhaps. Frogs can be poisonous too though, so that feeling can be explained evolutionarily.



Couldn't help it, I thought this was so funny. Stomp that one.

I suppose that it is probably just a matter of the ways that we express things, but I'm never "creeped out" by anything only from a picture of it. I can be repelled by it though. I guess my imagination just doesn't translate a picture into an experience. Too many movies and too much TV probably.

I'm rather fond of spiders...Not joking Most Swiss spiders are harmless, although some rather poisonous spiders have be known to nip over the border and settle down over here.
We sometimes get very large garden spiders with crosses on their backs. I have held some in my palm before, and they do not weigh anything, and some may try to promptly weave a web around your hand and wrist - a very sticky business
I was very fortunate to come across a very beautiful St. Andrew's Cross spider on our garden wall, with its yellow and black stripes shining in the sun and the characteristic X-pattern woven into its web. I like to coax spiders (I am familiar with) onto my hand, but it's very important to return them to their webs for obvious reasons.
And finally, we get tiny spiders scuttling around the house. One of these little fellows actually came zooming down on a thread from the ceiling when I was in bed reading, and dangled happily over my book. I gave it a small prod with my finger, and it rushed ceiling-wards like lightning :-D

Briefly...Fascinating (and misunderstood) creatures, spiders ;-)

Yikes! Well, we're fortunate that we don't get those kind of poisonous spiders hereabouts... And the spiders I have seen around so far have been fairly easy to recognise because of their colour and patterning And how fast those feet move when they're wrapping up an insect in silk for the storeroom area of the web ;-D The construction of the web itself is wonderful to watch. I recall a study where spiders were put on drugs...the webs they built while they were on a "high" were decidedly bizarre ;-)
Found a link to the study results:
Spiders On Drugs

PS: the coaxing is quite straightforward...Just stick out your finger and tickle the spider's feet ;-) But do it very gently...and if you're absolutely certain about the spider's harmlessness...!

You're welcome ) When we moved house several years ago, the first thing I noticed was that there were tons of spiders - indoors and outdoors. One garden spider lived right outside our front door for nearly nine months. I think she recognised people leaving and entering the house - our footsteps probably sent specific vibrations through her web. I do hope she never ended up on drugs, though! ;-)