Are wisowbspiders dangerous around ducks ...or just a snack?

[LaFleche]

We have intentionally several harvestmen (daddy longlegs) living in the bathrooms and stairways, chicken coops, barns etc. where they are very useful. Every once in a while I reduce their numbers and if necessary some webs.

 

[Painted Calls]

I too have house spiders. They help me with stray flies and stink bugs. So. Many. Stink bugs.

 

[Ruby Rogue]

Are they big house spiders?

 

[Painted Calls]

Are they big house spiders?

Mine aren't. I only allow jumpers and webbers to stay. They're maybe the size of my thumbnail at the largest.

Any larger friends get a free trip out the door. Especially the Fisher and Wolf friends.

 

[azygous]

This is my spider. http://entomology.wsu.edu/outreach/bug-info/cat-face/ Mine is about 3/4 inch long presently. But still growing.

 

[Ruby Rogue]

The only spiders we have here that get bigger than your thumbnail are the ones I sweep out of the doorway in fall, and the river spiders that terrorize us in the summer. I am not a fan.

But now I understand the necessity in some homes, and always respect their position in the chain of life....but I prefer they stay outdoors.

Thankfully we have no venomous species of spider (or anything) where I live.

 

[azygous]

Closely related to spiders are scorpions. They are not allowed in my house, and suffer the death penalty if they invade. Which they do. And they bite, and it's very unpleasant. Last summer, I had two, one in bed with me that stung me twice as I slept. Yes, it woke me and the scorpion got executed. The other one was in my bathtub and got executed, also. No. Nothing happened to me. The stings hurt for a few hours, then went away. I don't worry when my chickens find them and eat them. They are mostly harmless. There is one species that has a toxic sting, but they hide out and most of the time are rarely seen.

 

[Painted Calls]

Closely related to spiders are scorpions. They are not allowed in my house, and suffer the death penalty if they invade. Which they do. And they bite, and it's very unpleasant. Last summer, I had two, one in bed with me that stung me twice as I slept. Yes, it woke me and the scorpion got executed. The other one was in my bathtub and got executed, also. No. Nothing happened to me. The stings hurt for a few hours, then went away. I don't worry when my chickens find them and eat them. They are mostly harmless. There is one species that has a toxic sting, but they hide out and most of the time are rarely seen.

I don't know that I could deal with scorpions lol. I feel like they'd be like flightless wasps.... but with pincers.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Scorpions are horrifying. Not a fan at all. Spiders are okay mostly when they are outside. That includes the tiny cute ones and the big hairy ones. I eliminate Black Widows when I find them by any means necessary.

 

[azygous]

Scorpions sting with a barb on the tip of their tail. It's always cocked and ready to go off if they make contact with anything. They remind me of a tiny back hoe/front loader. You need a sledge hammer to smash them as they do not easily crush under your shoe.