Hawaii here, not too many bad critters other than rather large looking centipedes. About spiders, I took a macro photo of a jumping spiders a while back and discovered how adorably cute it really looked. Can't find pic right now, at work ... but check the image attached. Dat Face! Those little eyes! Nothing against spiders, they don't bug me, lol. Anything slithery and owning fangs or biting apparatus... yikes.