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I was an arachnophobe. I'd be the first to jump on the bed to get away from a spider screaming for somebody to catch it. Before I owned a spider I did spend over a year watching videos on them. Initially I couldn't even watch a video on spiders, but one of the youtubers I watched had one and my interest started from there. That film back in the day put the willies up me and would haunt me.
When you have to rehouse a spider, you have no choice, arachnophobe or not. If you don't it will die, and that's cruel. The first time I rehoused one it was a bit of an ordeal and my partner helped me (who at this point was also an arachnopobe and couldn't even be in the same room as the spider). The experience of rehousing my first spider most definitely helped me overcome my fear of spiders. The experience of owning a spider will do that.
As for your original question, I do not condone the killing of insects. We share this world with all sorts, and as this time of the year is common for spiders I'd just ride it out. You're in the UK, we don't have dangerous spiders. Trapping them, and putting them outside is like somebody picking you up and plonking you in the middle of nowhere
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I think we're probably going to end up having to agree to disagree about this. I used to be very tolerant of Pholcidae (skull spiders) in my home on the basis that they kept everything else down, until one day I counted five of the blighters in the shower when I was taking one. Have to say that for me that was too much, and ever since I've been much more insistent on getting rid of their webs (though I still tolerate a few around).
It was one of these;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcus_phalangioides
My very Cornish Gran used to say that she operated a no-tolerance policy towards spiders in her home because if you don't, "they increase like a doous!" (the English dialect equivalent would be "like billy-o"!).
Similarly, I was making an entry in my diary a few minutes ago when I saw an ant walking across it. Having memories of a fruit cake in a tin my Gran gave me which turned into a full-scale ant's nest some years ago, I have a policy of no tolerance for ants in my home now and took the diary and ant outside where the ant crawled off the pages of my diary and onto a blade of grass. No one was hurt, including the ant.
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