Unwelcome guests There are few people who, like Professor Chen, regard spiders in the house as "honored guests." On seeing a spider-such as the alarmingly large "laya" (Heteropoda venatoria, a type of brown huntsman spider commonly seen in homes in Taiwan) -most people will either blanch and scream in horror, or immediately try to "exterminate" it.
結網人間，但求安身少有人像陳老師將屋內蜘蛛當成「貴客」；一般人看到蜘蛛或是俗稱剌蚜的「白額高腳蜘蛛」，不是嚇得花容失色，驚聲尖叫，就是立刻予以「銷毀」。