Spiders are small creatures with eight legs
that build sticky webs as their homes ​and use them to catch insects that happen to get stuck.
They are found almost everywhere:
on trees, grasses, crops, houses and other structures they find around. Most of them are not poisonous to humans although some can bite sharply with their fangs and cause deaths. Here in the Philippines, kids gather spiders for fun and engage them in fights just like cocks that fight during a match. Two spiders are placed on a stick to face each other in a brutal fight where one can be wrapped in a web and die and therefore, lose the fight. At times, a spider drops itself to the ground to avoid the match but it is picked up again and placed on the stick so that the match can push through until there's a winner already. As time goes by, matches are no longer just for fun but also for money when bets are placed on the two opposing spiders. What used to be kids' game has turned into a money-making venture. Some adults are lured to catch spiders for sale or nurtured them for future fights which they hope could bring them financial gains. This has been going on for decades and it's popularity is not dying down. As more and more kids and adults gather spiders for fun or for money, there's this great danger of wiping them out. Those guys clearly have not realized the significant damage they do to nature where nature clearly has a potent weapon to strike back on humans. Spiders easily trap tiny insects on their webs especially those destructive pests for farmers. And the more important part and one that should not be ignored is when their sticky webs catch mosquitoes that bring Malaria and Dengue. Malaria and Dengue are causing deaths in young and old people alike in numbers in many parts of the Philippines and other countries. Patients suffer much and could not be saved at times. Who knows, a person or child afflicted with Malaria and Dengue could have been spared the danger if spiders were left undisturbed in their webs. It's high time for local governments to create an ordinance or law that prohibits the capture of spiders in any way. ​We should never again lose someone to malaria, dengue and other diseases.
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