Scariest type of spider?

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The scariest spider of all would be the one that did that even though you were human.

Agreed.

*shudder*

Was going to suggest anything with fangs...but have now changed my mind....

Don't Preying Mantises do the same thing?

Bite the male's head off after copulation?

Very bad manners, those ladies.......

Sylkat

I've never encountered spiders in real life that scare me but I've seen pictures and read descriptions of ones that could scare me. The ones around here are harmless but there are some that I wouldn't want to approach if I ever encountered them.

There's also a harmless spider that can run at 10 mph. That's pretty fast for such a small creature and it would scare me if I saw it moving so quickly. It would scare me even more if I didn't know what it was.

I'd have to say that the scariest one to encounter would be one that I know is venomous and could be dangerous if I accidently make it feel threatened. The second most frightening would be one I know nothing about. That's probably the most common because I know very little about spiders. How am I supposed to know it's harmless? Then there are the ones that I know for a fact are harmless. Most of those are ones that live in my area.

Then again, there are certain plants that would make me very anxious. If I look at them and I worry they might be poisonous to the touch I won't want to go near them. If I went outside right now and there were all these colourful, strange looking, sharp or oddly shaped plants outside I'd freak out. I wouldn't want to accidently get pricked by a sharp point on a plant that's also covered in a toxin. Poison needle? No thank you.

I never understood the fear of the unknown until I started looking at pictures of plants, fungi, and insects from all over the world.

Jumping spiders are good to have in your house. They kill other bugs, and they're harmless to humans. Also they're cuter than other spiders. Super kawaii spiders.





Anyway, for whatever reason, I'm always scared of I think garden spiders? They're like yellow. Also, wolf spiders. So big black shiny spiders. Yes.

My friend, he's actually obsessed with bugs. His house is always messy, but he has almost no bugs. What he does is, he just purposely introduces predatory bugs in his house to kill the bugs like ants, roaches, etc. He told me he bred and made like, a super hybrid wolf spider by mating the indoor ones and the outdoor ones, and the hybrids are still around in his house.

Anyway, oddly, spiders scare me less than other bugs, for some reason. Like I'll have a beetle flying around my room or something and freak the hell out, and then I'll see a spider and be like "I wish it wasn't here, but oh well."

Those pictures are so kawaii!

I think spiders are not as bad as other creatures such as flies, mosquitos, cockroaches, moths, ants etc. If I see any of those, I have to get rid of them, but if it's a spider, I tend to just leave it alone unless it's a redback or something that could harm me. As I post this message I am aware there are some small black ones on the walls etc, but they never bother me.

I think you just convinced me to always be nice to jumping spiders from now on, and yeah, that one is adorable.

I have a house full of the ones with long spindly legs and I got over being afraid of them by giving them names. I can't tell them apart and they move webs a lot so the names don't really matter. But if the spider is especially robust, I'll call her Bertha, if it's a dainty little spider I'll call her Millie, etc.. I give them all old-timey ladies' names because I can't think of old-timey mens' names quick enough.

I don't like the big, bulky spiders of any size, and I'm especially terrified of the large hairy ones. I had one go after my foot while I was using the bathroom and I couldn't get up and run away. I moved my foot away and the damn thing went after it.

When I was little I was especially afraid of any spider at all and slept in the living room for several months because there was a spider in my room and my mom wouldn't kill it. I also refused to have my bed next to the wall in case a spider crawled up the wall and got on me.

Why isn't "all" on the list of options? I couldn't give a rat's a** if it has long, spindly legs or stubby fuzzy ones, I hate every damn spider with a burning passion.

Then exterminate every last one of them. See what that does.

Why?I've been bitten before and I don't hate them.There's a really big fellow living in the bathroom right now.

The fast ones.

That being said, I'm much more afraid of bees and wasps.

Spiders are kinda like the police, I get that we need them in order to maintain a certain balance. That things would be worse without them. But that doesn't stop me from freaking the hell out whenever I can see one nearby.

Spiders get an undeserved bad reputation.

Firstly, "preying mantis" is not one species, but rather commonly refers to any one of over 2000 insect species in the order Mantodea. The vast majority of female-eating-male observations in Mantodea were made in captivity, in situations where the male has no ability to flee after copulation. I was told by another entomologist who focused on Mantids for her research that only one species was observed to engage in such behavior in the wild, and not in every mating observed.