I consider myself a fan of spiders. I knew when I bought a wooden house that I would probably end up sharing it with some eigth-legged friends and I was perfectly OK with that. I do brush up their webs if they get too untidy but generally I leave them alone.
This was wandering around next to my laptop tonight. I am pretty sure it was a white-tailed spider for two reasons: 1: it was skulking around in the middle of the night with evil intent rather than just sitting in a corner like most of my spiders, and 2: it had a white tail.
The bite of the white-tail spider has a bad reputation for making bits of you drop off. I have always figured that this was an exaggeration and wikipedia backs me up. Still, I have been bitten by similarly sized spiders before and did not find the experience pleasant, so outside he goes. I can’t say I will be too upset if he gets eaten by a tui.
I have a new house rule: anything with more than 4 legs must be able to fit on a fifty cent piece.
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