would you will be willing to pay £5 to create an island just for spiders so we dont have to have them here ?

Yes. Here's a tenner to start you off x

No.

It is a sweet proposal, very kind of you to think of relocation rather than genicide, but it is too impractical.

You can't go around buying islands! No matter how many fivers arachnid fearers may pay.

Worse yet, you can't remove any living thing from its natural ecosystem. People are working hard now, all around the world to bring back that kind of bio-diversity.

Chairman Mao tried to exterminate all the sparrows once - he considered them as pests, and citizens were rewarded for bringing in a quota of dead sparrows.

The whole thing was so cruel and stupid and pointless - the insects the sparrows would have normally eaten destroyed so many crops after that.

Just think of an environment without spiders and many might smile. Then scream as their homes get invaded by cockroaches and flies and all the other kinds of unclean insects that spiders would have kept in check.

I hear people yelling at me.

"My home still has cockroaches and flies, despite the odd spider!"

"Well," I reply, "Just imagine how many more there'd be without spiders. And if you didn't squash the spiders, there'd be less."

But back to your proposal. So all areas are spider-free, and the spiders are happily living on their island ....

So what do you do then?

Invest in huge amounts of insecticide in a world that is riddled with cancer because of them?

See the repercussions in the Chinese vegetable market NOW. No-one in Asia wants to buy their exported, cheaper vegetables because of all those chemicals they still have to use to make up for one stupid act decades ago!

Everything has its place, and if you think a spider has no place in your home, put it outside. If it is a house-spider, put it in your greenhouse or store room, where it will serve you well.

Leave the outdoor ones alone.

The Natural World remains sane, so far, and its workers still do their jobs without threatening eco-systems.

Oops! Along comes a black wasp, has a duel with a big spider, and bye-bye spider!

New spider comes along and turns a huge cockroach into spider soup.

Don't mess with Nature.

Only humans seem to be forgetting their role, which is become clearer and clearer now. We are the over-seers, the managers and the guardians.

We can either do our jobs well, or very badly.

Back to Spider Island, the spiders increase in numbers and start to run out of food ... evolution plants a new gene ... the "mutant" spiders return to your house looking really mean and nasty, out for food and revenge...

A microcosmos without spiders would be a very sad place indeed.

LOL very good.

I'd certainly be glad to be rid of spiders, they seem to follow me around!!

BUT - if all the spiders are gone, will that not mean there'll be more flies, wasps etc? They are much worse, at least with a spider you can run away from it!!!

So, if you could get rid of those too... that would be great, and I'd pay a lot mroe than £5!

No, because then there would be no spider webs to catch wasps, flies, bluebottles, crane flies, aphids, hornets, any amount of pest insects... Would you rather a plague of icky buzzing bluebottles to the spiders who are quite content to keep the ecosystem in balance?

Besides, spiders are much more scared of you than you are of them. Think about it; they're loads of times smaller than you, and they reason they move so fast is to prevent other larger creatures from stepping on them! And anyway, to move the spiders, you'd have to round up the other things that cause flies and other insects to hang around, including dogs, cats, horses, sheep... and humans!

I myself, and Robert Smith, the Lead Singer of the Cure, we personally love spiders.

We know that on candy striped legs, the spider-man comes, etc etc. You really don't want to deny yourself the opportunity to have him around by placing him and all his ilk on some dreadful island, now would you? No, of course not. He's no Robinson Crusoe. He'd die on that island. Shame Shame. You'd be up to your knees in bees (and flies for that matter) before ya knew it. Go now at once and apologize to all the spiders you happen to come across today for having such a dreadful thought. And maybe just maybe they'll decide to continue working in your neck o' the woods and not abandon you.

How about you put your £5 into a pot and start saving for some therapy for your spider fear?

Every creature is entitled to a life in it's own natural habitat & most of them have been around longer than the humans who seem to want to change everything :~(.

Yeah we could do that but then we would have to deal with all of the insects that the spider feeds off of. Trust me if we had no spiders more bugs would be annoying you than before.

Someone needs to get a life. If you did that then you would be complaining about the insects which would be tormenting you since the spiders weren't there to eat them. Why are you so afraid of something so much smaller than yourself? GET OVER IT!

You would'nt get many spiders on an island for £5.

r u going to go and find all the spider , and also find the transport to take the many millions of them to this miraculous man made island like ? i think not.

I`m not scared of spiders, so no I wont want to give £5.