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I grew up in a house with tons of brown recluses and the somewhat frequent appearance of a black widow. My brother was bitten by a brown recluse on the arm and it was the gnarliest thing I'd ever seen up to that point in my life, so I just had a kill on sight policy for any brown spiders, even after we moved. Didn't want to risk it.

I ended up doing a deep dive into spiders to try to get over my fear and realized indiscriminate killing wasn't the way to go. I won't even kill brown recluses anymore, though it's been quite a while since I've seen one and even longer since I saw a black widow.