Really, really random question about spiders! (Buddhism, bless, Articles, Buddhism)

[Feathers in Hair]

I apologize to you arachnophobes (which I am, but not to such a degree I can't type about them!), but I was writing an article that happened to mention some bit of information about spiders, and now I'm trying to verify if that factoid is actually based in fact.

I believe that the statistic was something like one was never more than ____ yards from a spider, but I can't seem to find the number or even the phrase in my searches. Has anyone else heard a version of this, or know of a web (haha!) site that I could find it on?

[Bastet]

Not quite what you're looking for, but I found this (maybe you could do some math to work it out):

There can be up to nearly 5 million spiders per hectare. http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/spiders.htm

[Bouncing Ball]

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like one was "never more" than "from a spider"

in google and most results would give you 3 feet..

[michel]

Fearhers, I used to be a dreadful arachnophobe; the only other creature that scared me most were snakes.

When I 'got into' Buddhism, and decided that I could no longer kill living creatures, much against my own better judgement, I decided that I had to take any spider that I found in the house outside and 'liberate it' in the garden.

It worked well; I now actually catch them without thinking (even let them walk on my skin), and let them loose outside. The arachnophobia is gone; I am certain that I am no longer scared of them because I have learned to accept them as 'valuable' living beings.

Just don't come near me with a snake...........

[CaptainXeroid]

Originally Posted by michel

...When I 'got into' Buddhism, and decided that I could no longer kill living creatures, much against my own better judgement, I decided that I had to take any spider that I found in the house outside and 'liberate it' in the garden...

Well, I haven't gotten into Buddhism, but I try to do the same thing when I find a spider even though my wife CANNOT STAND them. I try to convince her that spiders eat the bad bugs, which they do, but still still commands me to KILL IT. Bless her heart.

[willything]

iv been biten by a spider, twice. it looked like a funnel web, but i know it wasnt. it still hurt. and in my job i see them all the time

[Feathers in Hair]

Yay, thanks Bouncing! *hugs* That's much appreciated! Bastet, I wish I could say that my math was good enough to have worked that out, hehee, but thanks for looking it up!

Michel, that's actually a lot of what the article is about- my struggle with living with spiders. I've never been able to kill them, but I used to be brave enough to at least get some paper and carry them outside. Nowadays, I find them so intimidating that I just watch the wall where they're standing and then, if they move toward me, I move (very quickly!) away.

[Buttons*]

Originally Posted by FeathersinHair

Yay, thanks Bouncing! *hugs* That's much appreciated! Bastet, I wish I could say that my math was good enough to have worked that out, hehee, but thanks for looking it up!

Michel, that's actually a lot of what the article is about- my struggle with living with spiders. I've never been able to kill them, but I used to be brave enough to at least get some paper and carry them outside. Nowadays, I find them so intimidating that I just watch the wall where they're standing and then, if they move toward me, I move (very quickly!) away.

My Mom has raised me to respect all life. Whenever she finds spiders in the house she takes them outside and lets them go.

I, on the other hand, love spiders, but am too afraid to go near them... anyone who knows my story of Gregory/Gregora is familiar with this.....

(Gregory(a) is the spider who lives in my room. At one point, s/he was hiding in my printer for a few days... but now i cant find it. I would never hurt it, but I'm too afraid to take it outside.... so i'm stuck with him/her breeding in my room

[dawny0826]

Spiders are not my favorite creepy crawlies.

My grandmother almost lost her arm to a brown recluse bite.