Save a What Day?

On this day the goal is to help with a fear of a common “living thing” found in households.

It comes in varying sizes, lives often in basements and attics and sometimes travels to rooms in your house.  When you see if your first instinct is usually to remove it forever.

Any ideas?  

Spiders!  Yes it’s Save a Spider Day!  What?

Private Home Health Care is working on helping with our arachnophobia but it feels kind of creepy to talk about the good things about a spider.  Here goes.

There are about 3,700 different types of spiders in the US.  Only two of those are poisonous.  (That’s quite a few spiders!)

Spiders feed on mosquitos, flies and cockroaches so could be considered your household pest control.  

(Feeling a little bit better?)

Your household spiders eat approximately 2,000 bugs a year. 

(That’s a lot of other bugs that you never see!)

Spiders keep to themselves so they are low-maintenance.  They only come out visibly once in a while, maybe after a bug we can’t see.

(Ready to just let the spider be when it appears in your room?)

Getting a bit from a spider is actually very rare. In Australia a study of 750 insect bites showed that only 44 came from spiders.

(Ready to view them as guardian angels now?)

The people behind this day are very hopeful that with education your inclination when you see a spider will be to get it in a jar and let it go outdoors.

It sounds like potentially a good plan.  What do you think?