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Despite popular belief, house spiders are not dangerous and are actually super helpful house guests, says entomologist\u00a0Matt Bertone.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don\u2019t kill the next spider you see in your home,\u201d he\u00a0writes.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhy? Because spiders are an important part of nature and our indoor ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n For the most part, Bertone says, house spiders stick to their corners and are never aggressive toward humans.<\/p>\n Better yet, they eat the bugs that are actually harmful to us, like blood-sucking mosquitoes, disease-spreading cockroaches, clothes-eating moths, pesky flies and earwigs.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people think of spiders as insects, lumping them in with six-legged invaders like roaches or ants,\u201d Russell Mclendon\u00a0writes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for Mother Nature Network.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they\u2019re not insects, and they don\u2019t want to raid our cupboards. Much like their\u00a0outdoor relatives that eat crop pests<\/a><\/strong>, house spiders just want to quietly kill the insects that do covet our food. If anything, they\u2019re on our side. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Spiders are also a natural defense against garden pests like aphids, moths and beetles.<\/p>\n If you still suffer from arachnophobia, consider this, common house spiders like the long-legged cellar spider or \u201cDaddy Long Legs\u201d actually eat black widows!<\/p>\n\n