Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them. They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive. Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.
Who knew that spiders can fly? Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air. Like looooong distances. Take a look at this Atlantic blurb. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard. I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie. My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.
I saw the picture with a link on DuckDuckGo. I immediately tried to enter something into the search bar and get off that page. I have arachnophobia in a bad way.
When I see one of the little critters, on a picture, in my room, the word written down somewhere, or on an 8-bit pixel game from thirty years ago, my heart races, my adrenaline rushes, and the fight-or-flight syndrome kicks into overdrive. I've got it in a bad way.
When I was around seven or eight years old (give or take a year), I lived in Oklahoma. One day, my father came out with some lighter fluid and lighter, and went to this hole in the ground which was where a tarantula lived. He sprayed the lighter fluid into the hole and immediately this ugly black creature came out, nice and wet.
My father tried to get his lighter going while the tarantula started crawling towards him. Dad stepped back still trying to get the lighter going. Finally, he lit it and the thing became a walking bonfire! I was never so scared in my life as I was that day. I think that's where my fear comes from but I'm not sure. I was pretty young then.
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