What do you do when you see a spider?

When you see a spider, what do you do? Do you scream or do you walk away. Or are you like me and stand there and stare at it? And especially if it's a jumping spider, do you try to figure out how to get it into your hands? Im obviously the latter, but many people are the former. When they see it, they either scream and destroy it or they just ignore it. I would prefer that they just ignore it, but many people just don't like them. And why? For many, it is because they are ugly and just plain creepy. They think that something with more than four legs is an alien out to get them and if it isn't removed from the premises, it will over take them over night. Right? Right. They do overtake buildings that aren't well kept and for the most part, if you find one, there are plenty more around. And to some degree, this is really actually quite good. They eat bugs. Lots of them, and the more spiders, the less bugs. If you were to remove every spider in the world, there would be so many bugs that we would die within a few years. That is how important spiders are, even the ones that can make us really sick. It is estimated that in one acre in a meadow, there are about two to three million spiders. In rain forests and wetlands, there are many more.
Spiders are the dominant terrestrial predators on this planet. There are over 30,000 known species and counting. They eat so many bugs a day. Even though one spider usually eats one or two bugs every couple of days, the several trillions add up. And over time, and with all of these spiders combined, they eat over 1.8 billion pounds of food each day! That doesn't really sound like much, but if you think about it, all the little bugs that you find in webs around your house (if you let them) would really be buzzing around annoying the day lights out of you. So spiders really aren't bad and you just have to learn that they are there for a reason and without them, our world definitely wouldn't be very pretty.
So the next time you see a spider and want to destroy it, I would encourage you to move it somewhere else where it won't bother you. And remember that you are a lot bigger than it is and it is much more scared of you than you are of it. Now if you do run across something like a black widow or brown recluse, I would recommend that if you can't get it into something it can't crawl out of and be easily and safely transported away from where you and other people are, I would kill it as quickly as I could. I know that I am contradicting myself, but you really don't want to get bit by one. People have been known to have died from bites from both spiders. But if it is another spider of some sort that isn't harmful to you, leave it alone. It's mostly trying to find a place to hide and find more bugs to eat.

What do you do with spiders when you see them? Please feel free to comment and follow this blog! I'm sure some of my friends would also appreciate your attention as well!

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Some really cool Spiders

Hey guys. Sorry for posting such a late blog. I was planning on posting something on this last Thursday or Friday, but that obviously never happened. I was of course really busy with school work and didn't have the time to post something. But now I do have some time and have been looking for something interesting to talk about.
I went to Google, and typed cool spiders into my search box. As I started to scan through the listings from Google, I saw the pictures, which had some interesting spiders, but I kept going to the first thing. Top 10 Bizarre Spiders. I clicked on it and it took me to this page. They really have pointed out some really cool spiders and some really bizarre ones at that. Of course, my favorites are the jumping spiders, like the Bagheera kiplingi, which is pretty much a vegetarian spider! Who knew that was possible, right? I think the most interesting one is the Argyrodes colubrinus. It is like a twig and from some pictures that I have seen of them, they really do look like a stick or something. To me they look more like a walking stick, but then again they do have eight legs. They also talk about my personal favorite Peacock Spider, which of course is a jumping spider. I will end up talking about them in a future blog. The Myrmarachne plataleoides is a really cool spider also, as it mimics ants. And really dangerous ants. If you look at them, they do really look like ants that are very harmful to humans. The good part is that these spiders aren't harmful to us at all, just like other jumping spiders. They have a pretty good chance of survival because the ants that they are mimicking are pretty aggressive and have a nasty bite, so most animals avoid them as much as possible. I think that is a pretty good defense mechanism. They don't really have to do much to be left alone.

Have you found any spiders that would fit in with these "bizarre" spiders? Which one is your favorite? Please feel free to leave comments and follow this blog.

I would also like for you to check out the blogs of my friends. They are pretty cool and I know they would appreciate the attention.

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Jumping SPiDER says hello

Hey guys and girls! How's it going? This is Jumping SPiDER and I am really excited to start this blog! As you probably can tell, I love spiders. I have always had a passion for them, which has been as long as I can remember. As you might be able to tell, the jumping spider is my favorite out of all spiders.

For many people, jumping spiders are "cute" and "adorable" and I wouldn't necessarily say that they are, but I would agree that there is something different about them in there looks and behavior that makes them so interesting. One thing that is really amazing about them is their amazing hunting skills. And of course, my favorite part about them is their jumping capabilities, where many of them can jump around twenty times their own body length. And for something this small, a one foot jumping distance is pretty impressive. They also have these awesome eyes that allow them to see their prey and kill it. Many people have claimed their sight to be similar to that of humans, but at a much smaller scale.

Handling them is a lot of fun. They seem to be very intelligent, and when crawling up my arms or sitting on my hands, they look at me with their little eyes as if they are trying to figure out how to get to my face. I don’t mind having them in my hands or on my arms, but I really don’t want them on my face, like in my eyes or up my nose. And worst yet, my mouth. They do certainly seem to be curious and I can never get enough of them. They are my most favorite spider and I usually try to find them around the house or at my school where it seems that there are more of them, which is better, right?

 So what kind of spiders do you like? Do you even like spiders at all?  I'd like to know what you think. 

If you would like to follow me, I would really appreciate it. And if spiders aren't your thing, and you don't really want to follow, no offense taken. I can understand, as many people I know really don't like them either. 

I would also appreciate it if you would go check out my friends' blogs and follow them! I think they would really appreciate it too!
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