imaginarycircus replied to your post:Oh jeez- I’ve handled so many so often that I…
I moved into a casita in Santa Fe that had tons of spiders and I don’t mind them so I left them alone. Except I would wake up in the morning with bites. So I had to get rid of them. Which made me kind of sad.
Interesting. My wife has told me similar stories. I’m curious if you had evidence that the bites were specifically from spiders. Did the bites noticeably stop after you got rid of the spiders? And did you selectively get rid of spiders only, as opposed to doing something more broadly targeted, like cleaning and/or applying insecticide?
The thing I’m curious about is whether it could have been some other kind of bug doing the biting. There are blood-sucking insects like mosquitoes and bedbugs that actually have a reason to be biting humans. As far as I know, though, there aren’t any spiders that do that, such that I’d think a healthy spider population might actually reduce the risk of being bitten rather than increase it. I’m curious what buggirl would think about that.
But you were there, and I wasn’t. Thanks for the info!
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