Yeah, I try to teach them which spiders are good and bad. But at the end of the day, they are indiscriminate killers. Jumping spiders are usually smart enough to stay back. You can watch them watching the cats.
Brown recluses and black widows are instant squish (both are prevalent here). I didn’t even know about yellow sac spiders (we apparently have those too) but they look close enough to brown recluses that they are fortunately/unfortunately going to meet the same fate.
I’m disappointed that I don’t have many orb weavers this year.
Edit: Big black widow I found at work a couple weeks ago (where I was sticking my hands).
They’re only included because they sometimes live in spaces I’m having to blindly stick my arm in. And we just don’t have the kind of trust. I probably just need to get some elbow length gloves for when I feel their webs (it feels different than other spider webs).
They are so smart. You can keep jumping spiders as pets and they exhibit social behaviors with humans, even ones in the wild are able to learn specific people and will just chill with you.
I like to befriend them and let them play by jumping around my fingers.
![[OC] A little jumping spider.](https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/storage/m/_v2/583754591554580481/bf0f52ff2-92677b/Bt6PFVLDKqNa/CibQxoSSTkb2rIeL4e9JaYzNPLfwGlX5sXovV9kc.jpg){kind=link}
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