I know how you detest spiders Odeon. I kind of do too, except to look at and photograph and possibly obsess over and maybe just jump when one touches me.
I have reservations about just killing them, though, such that if a living spider ever eats even one mosquito, I want to look it in its ten furry little eyes and send it on its way to continue doing "good work."
BUT, yesterday we turned on our furnace for the first time since last May and it did not act right. I saw fire in the box, but not in the actual massive burner area. It was not right.
I shut it down, called the service tech and got through below freezing temperatures overnight with just our space heaters (before bed, mind you - I would never leave one of those running without watching it!).
SO, the service tech spent half an hour taking it apart and way more searching for a cause and finally he found the problem.
THERE WAS A SPIDER, DEAD, but inside the tiny orifice where the gas goes to the big burner. So the gas was being sprayed away from the proper area and just going inside the containment of the furnace unit and burning.
Sounds dangerous, right? I feel that if I had not seen iffy stuff going on with the fire and not felt heat coming from the unit, it could easily have gotten out of control and burned our house down.
That spider died trying to nest there and I hope it choked on its last breath, not that they do that or anything, but FUCK!!