As already noted, I am fairly fond of spiders, but I do keep some control over admission to my house. Polite small spiders that spin webs in quiet corners can stay, as can small Roving Wolf spiders which patrol the flyscreens on my windows.
However, Redbacks (a variety of black widow, and potentially lethal) and White-tails (implicated in arachnoid necrosis) are escorted outside and dumped in the garden.
I keep a piece of plastic off some packaging, and a flat sheet of carboard, to use to remove unwanted creepy crawlies in general.
Now, mosquitos ... hate the little suckers. Whining, blood-sucking, disease-spreading, itch-causing little buggers. You die squish now!
ETA: This might be different if I lived in Sydney, home territory of the Sydney Funnel-Web Spider. Those things are aggressive and deadly; before the development of the antivenom, a bite from one could kill an adult in a few hours....
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They have ample venom glands that lie entirely within their chelicerae. Their fangs are large and powerful, capable of penetrating fingernails and soft shoes.
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