Damn ceiling spiders....

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I like spiders and let them build webs wherever, but will destroy webs in house and shoo them outside because they will get more food there. I would also throw ants into their webs.

I did that with a black house spider I called Shelob (was in the bathroom). I made her fat with all the bugs I gave her.

A gecko, that I dubbed Godzilla, ate her. The food chain at work.

Sweetleaf could simply domesticate them all...

Some friends of mine had 2 pet black widows because it was nice knowing where they were.

They get pretty big here. Not the biggest (those are in Asia IIRC). Largish male hand-sized spread out is a good sized specimen from all I've seen here. I've seen bigger, but I kinda just went, "no" each time, and herded it outside with a broom.

The palm-sized one in the pictures I tend to see once a year when they find their way indoors.

I've seen trapdoors in the woods; you can have fun by putting bugs in front of their nests and watching them come out and take it.

Never seen a tarantula here. I think they're further up north in the rainforests.

Golden Orb-Weavers are everywhere here. They make webs between the trees on either side of the roads/paths.

Ah, I've already done that; it's made easier by the fact that these things dont look at all like what the usual sorts look like; I remember I was quite surprised to originally see that most centipedes DONT look like some sort of deranged insect-related mad science experiment gone horribly wrong. Most centipedes (and millipedes) actually have quite short legs, and very long bodies (whereas these guys are kinda short in length when you see them).

Typically the ones I am familiar with are called "house centipedes", for fairly obvious reasons. They've been there for years, along with the boxelders and ladybugs that also get into that house.... somehow. I just pick the damn things up and take them outside. Well, those two anyway, as again the centipedes are just too bloody fast. House centipedes can sting, but it has little effect and typically just causes redness/swelling in a small spot, as does many insect stings (though very rarely, it can cause more severe pain than that, but still has no other effects). Apparently though, they arent generally strong enough to pierce skin most of the time, so that happening is very rare. They're not aggressive anyway like wasps or something. They mostly just run around like deranged maniacs and do... whatever the heck it is that they do. Hunt small bugs, I suppose. Plenty to find in that house. Or they sit right next to the garage door button thing. I have no idea why. I see them there frequently, just right next to it.

Interesting creatures, really. Most insects are, at least to me. They're the only type of centipede I've seen in my area. There's millipedes around here too, but they seem very rare. Or I'm just not in the right sort of place to see any.

Yeah I don't seem those often (definitely not as big) and I just always assumed they figure out everywhere their prey isn't before actually doing anything.

Centipedes and millipedes seem to really like old brush piles. Sometimes my work involves hauling piles away, so I see them quite frequently. They also appear to like piles of rotting wood.