Yeah, and the vent will spread the bug spray all over the house if it's turned on....

I usually favor just leaving spiders alone. I'd rather have a spider than the things the spider is eating. So if a spider has taken up residence in an inconvenient place, I try to catch her and turn her loose outdoors.

This doesn't apply to Black Widows, which get stomped with a wafflestomper. I want armor between me and them when I destroy them.

*ppht* Lightweight. I've had everything from spiders to roaches to centipedes get into my bed. It's a drawback of living secluded in the woods, but the upshot is you overcome your "fear" as it turns to "intense hatred". Just lay some boric acid powder around all entry points. This includes windowsills, which is one of the top (no pun intended) spots that ants find their way into homes. Trust me, my house is up on five-metre posts (the first metre-and-a-half are in the ground), and I thought there were lots of things that wouldn't find their way in, such as ants. I mean, I'd expected spiders and wasps and hornets, but not ants, and certainly not the odd snake or two (which are probably following the odd treefrog or two).

Arachnaphobia scared the bejebus out of me as a kid...and I didn't even watch the movie, just the commercial showing spiders flowing out of the showerhead with purple spider gut juice flying out.