Comments on: Phobias revealed- Interesting Facts About Spiders

By: Sean Glover

Sean Glover — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:39:50 +0000

Marinda, the claims that jumping spiders are poisonous are untrue. I refuse to kill a spider as I find them totally fascinating. This of course doesn’t help my marriage. My wife and daughter are total arachnifobes. Slowly but surely I’m getting them used to spiders. Since I can remember I have always loved spiders, they are beautiful. I think that if people could spend more time researching spiders, they would come to realise that spiders are really not as bad and evil as everybody makes out. The daddy long legs (totally harmless) is very often mistaken for a violen spider (brown recluse). This has propably led to the rumour that the daddy long legs is deadly but just doesn’t have jaws big enough to bite you. All a rumour. I spend a lot of time looking for spiders to study them and have never found a violen spider. I have recently moved to Rustenburg and I’m looking forward to climbing the mountains here to study the local variaty of arachnids that reside here.

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:28:04 +0000

I do not understand why anyone could fear such beautiful creatures. I should be scared due to a nasty bite from a sac spider when I was on holiday in Cape Town. Only to find out there were several other bite marks as well.There is some permanent tisue damage due to being neglegent to go to a gp but I am still alive. That is all that counts. I now have 4 spiders that I keep as pets and yet my arachnaphobic friends stare at them the longest… If you want to see my next pet it will be a cobalt blue tarantula just use google image search. And tell me why you wouldn’t stare at it for hours on end.

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By: Kerry Harvey

Kerry Harvey — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:31:55 +0000

Hi, I don’t like bugs in general and I know a spider isn’t a bug but I don’t like them at all, they make my heart beat faster every time I see one. I dont know why but spiders tend to wander into my room all the time and make nests. . like right now there are two black spiders the size of R2 coins sitting at one of the legs of my bed. They’ve got a web up with 3 different main courses in it: a beetle, smaller yellow spider and a tiny moth. o_O

I’m scared they are going to make babies -_- and there will be tiny little spiders crawling around whilst I sleep. I want to squash them both and remove the web. . but I feel sorry for them. I suppose I could remove them outside but they move to fast T_T

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By: eric weppelman

eric weppelman — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:20:57 +0000

Hi I just killed what looks like a violen spider I am very concerned as I have a 2 year old daughter and a baby on the way do we get these spiders in the east london area and should I be concerned about more of them around the house

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By: Marinda

Marinda — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:13:18 +0000

Of all the sites and info on spiders yours has the best photo’s and info on the questions about poisonous spiders. I do agree I do not like spiders although I am not terrified. As I opened my bathroom window yesterday a Violin Spider fell in on the sill. I had an idea what it was, but could positively identify it from photo’s. I must admit that I grabbed the Doom. As I do when I find any spider resembling a button spider. I would like to have some info on the little jumping spiders (Porshe – I think it is called) I once heard that they are are poisonous.

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By: Jenni

Jenni — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:19:57 +0000

Will be driving round Northern Cape soon and terrified of spiders, whether they bite or not, just the fact that they exist and run so fast (and are often black). Is it true they are frequently pop up in cars (just as you thought you were enjoying a nice drive…)? and are often extremely large? Is the late summer any worse than any other time? How likely is it that they (especially big and black) will be found in bedrooms, bathrooms etc? What can we do to discourage them? Are there more when it rains? What is Doom? Just want to be prepared!

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