Well, nowadays I see those “leggy balls” endearing, but when I was a child they gave me the thrills! We used to go on vacation to a little village in the mountains, and in the camping and all around the green grass there were millions of this guys looking for bits of our dinner and rests of rotten food to eat. And if you forget the door of your tent open, in ten minutes you can have three or four of them trying to crawl into the tent… the little nuisances!

Also they used to stick around by dozens altogether in the exterior walls of the buildings, spreading their long legs flat on the wall. And I used to avoid those walls like the pest! Ha ha, poor things… they really don’t bite or sting, they are completely harmless. I think people aren’t fond of them because their ridiculous wiry long legs, and also because they look like spiders!