Even though I still have arachnophobia, I’ve intentionally lived with spiders for over a decade and I’ve not had issues with mosquitoes even if I left all of my windows open. And my roommates are thriving!
They’re very chill roommates, too! After about 1-2 months of adjusting to living together in my old apartment, they stopped spinning webs in the areas which I used frequently and focused on the zones which I left out for them - ceiling corners, gaps between walls and furniture, etc. I did occasionally clean up their old webs every now and again (while taking great care not to bother the spiders themselves) because they also gathered a lot of dust. But they’d replace the old webbing in a matter of days.
And they never developed overpopulation issues, even though I did see them producing egg sacks regularly. I was expecting to droqn in spiders by the end of the first year of trying this arrangement, but I never counted more than 15-20 spiders apartment-wide.
stoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those spiders you find inside may be of a type completely adapted to living indoors with humans. Putting one outside means death.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I made this mistake with a stink bug when it was winter. It was ok with being on the piece of paper I had it on. When I opened the door and the cold air hit it, it backed away towards me. I set it down and it stopped moving. Oops. :(
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Aren’t most bugs cold blooded?
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Big this.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re cave-dwelling spiders. They still need a way to find new caves to inhabit. If they’re already settled in your house then they may not survive because you’ve interrupted their lifecycle. But new spiders are wandering in all the time. Those ones may have better luck finding a new house to move into (or coming right back into your house) because they haven’t been established yet.