Spiders eat 400-800M tons of mostly insects.

Mostly.

Won't this make spiders our enemy once we are forced to shift to an insect based protein diet?

The link opens with a picture of an orb weaver that might be much less cute than thumbnail spider... just warning you guys. I am gonna go scratch off all my skin now.

Jumping spiders are totally the cutest. They also have amazing eyes. You know when you see one and it turns and seems to be looking right at you? It is. They have amazingly accurate depth perception by comparing sharp images to blurry images. They see a broad spectrum of colors. Unlike many other arthropods, they can aim the two largest eyes, and those eyes are shaped like little telescopes that that can swivel around inside their heads.

Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-jumping-spider-color-vision-mating-animals-science/

http://www.livescience.com/18143-jumping-spider-unique-vision.html

I knew they had good eyesight and object permanence but the rest is news to me!

When I was little, maybe eight or nine, I read a book about a boy who gets pulled into a magic tapestry. Somehow a jumping spider that was on the tapestry gets pulled in with him, but while the boy gets shrunk to fit the scale of the tapestry imagery, the spider stays the same relative size, winding up bigger than a horse. And of course, since this is a kid's fantasy book, the spider is friendly and can speak. The two then share many exciting adventures. I've loved jumping spiders ever since.

400-800 insects in your house trying to crawl inside you when you sleep.
#spiderbros4lyf

I welcome our new spider overlords!

Remembeer kids, 38 percent of all statistics are fabricated.

So, I just moved from the Seattle area back to the East Coast. I killed about 4 mosquitoes this morning. That's more than I think I saw my entire 3 years in Washington. Washington is also chock full of spiders, my toddler would run into the basement and come up with squashed spiders all over his hands, giggling maniacally. He may have issues. The point I'm making is though, tons of spiders, no bugs I ever felt the need to swat.