Spiders have managed to get a bad rep over the years. A lot of people find them creepy, even terrifying.
Every year as the cold weather sets in and the spiders begin moving into our homes, spider invasion-induced panic begins.
And if you listened to anecdotal evidence, you’d think they were getting bigger every year.
Even if you are spider-phobic though, we need to give them the respect they deserve.
They don’t mean us harm (unless we attack them first) and they actually do us and the world a service.
Here are eight reasons why spiders are useful for humanity.
1) They eat pests
Their diet consists of common insect pests you find indoors, like roaches, earwigs, flies, moths and pesky mosquitoes.
Spiders – they’re on our side.
2) And therefore also prevent spread of disease
Some of these pests can cause disease. Fleas, for example, can spread bubonic plague or typhus. They’re pretty nasty.
Other disease-carrying critters they eat include mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/27/9-reasons-why-spiders-might-actually-be-useful-for-humanity-5529432/#ixzz49g0ByqWj
