# What's your favorite/least favorite kind of spider? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537 "2011-01-30T19:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/21 "2011-01-31T17:30:37Z")
I love that spider that someone posted pictures of a couple years ago, that looks like it is smiling. I have a selection of wolf spiders living in and under the house, and some daddy longlegs/huntsman. I don’t mind web spinners under the house, or in the attic crawlspace but I do sweep away webs when I find them in the house. I used to keep tarrantulas back in the early 80s, and might consider keeping them again if we end up having the space available. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/22 "2011-02-02T13:13:24Z")
I like the crab spider. I hate the rain spider AKA huntsman (You may know him better as the Clock Spider.) ---
**Author:** ![Ladymarmalade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@Ladymarmalade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladymarmalade)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/23 "2011-02-02T14:01:26Z")
I myself am fond of the Itsy Bitsy Spider. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/24 "2011-02-02T14:19:50Z")
> [@loshan](#): > > HATE HATE HATE Hobo spiders. Agreed. I used to have a basement apartment in Spokane, Washington and they were everywhere. I swear I smushed one that must have been eating birds and small mammals it was so big. The glue traps I took to setting out would fill up within days with specimens that would give me shivers when I thought about them crawling around on me while I slept. Used to wake up with bites all the time, though never had a reaction to them beyond some itchiness. As far as liking, I like daddy long legs and the common house spider that takes care of the other bugs and spiders that get into the house… though I have a general rule that if I see something in the house with more than 4 legs, it dies. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/25 "2011-02-02T15:16:48Z")
I **hate** all spiders. > [@AshenLady](#): > > Charlotte is my favorite spider… Except Charlotte. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/26 "2011-02-02T15:28:18Z")
Favourite: dead spider Least favourite: alive spider Spiders are scary. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/27 "2011-02-02T17:14:37Z")
The [Magnolia Green Jumper](http://bugguide.net/node/view/2040) is probably my favorite. I had one hitch a ride on my bicycle handlebar once (all the way home from work), and was amazed at how she scurried around without falling off. Sometimes she’d hang down with a silk thread and come back up. [Writing spiders](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia) (aka black and yellow garden spider) are pretty cool too. We usually have a few living in our yard - currently 3 egg sacs that I know of. Least favorite spiders are the ones that have the potential to harm me - especially black widows, because I run into them all too often, in unsuspecting places (e.g. bottom of my dog’s water bowl). Now, I know jumping spiders can bite too, but the danger is nothing like black widows or brown recluses (right?). ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/28 "2011-02-02T18:01:08Z")
Nice [jumping spider](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1560DOYU_AY) video. As with many others, my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537/29 "2011-02-02T18:12:21Z")
I’m fond of the largish brown wolf spiders that run around our building when the weather gets warm. Everybody comes and asks me to catch them to put outside, but if they’re in my office, I usually leave them alone and sometimes give them names. I generally like spiders. I’ve had pet ones around my house too, like Miss Muffet who lived under the printer on my desk. She was smaller and greyish with darker racing stripes and long forelegs, but I don’t know precisely what species that would be. Daddy-long legs, on the other hand, give me the creeps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-least-favorite-kind-of-spider/569537.md?page=1)