I used to hate spiders too. During an animal behaviour course at university, we watched a short film showing spiders spinning webs to classical music. 🕸It was so cool! Then I started working as the head naturalist at a Provincial Park. I decided to learn more about spiders. That let to giving talks and presentations about them. This included going out and capturing as many as I could for "show & tell". Spiders are actually very fascinating. However, I can't say that I have held a tarantula yet.

My favourites are flower and jewel spiders. Wish I knew where all those pictures went.