There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.