I think spiders are pretty cool. Had a weird experience though in the house a while back. I saw a spider on the floor (we're in the country so that happens occasionally) and went to smoosh it real lightly with a kleenex and literally hundreds of little babies - almost so small you couldn't see them - started running away. Freaked me out! I didn't realize that they carry them around like that!
On a scary note.... my daughter is doing a project for school (Jr. High - this is in place of a Science Fair project) called "Poisonous Creepy Crawlers". She chose the black widow and rattlesnake to do her research on. My husband told her that he could bring her a black widow back from the deer lease the next time he's there (he killed 3 of them the other weekend while he was at the deer lease!) and he also has a few rattles and skins from rattlesnakes he's killed in the past. Well, much to my horror, he actually caught a black widow out in his shop behind the house this weekend! I know that we have these things in our area but I've never seen one. Ick! Now it's safely ensconced in a mason jar and quite dead. We also have brown recluses in our area but I haven't seen one.
Have fun watching your "pet spider"! But I don't blame you for planning to destroy the egg sac. I would too!
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