OMG Kim you are a brave soul. I,probably would have passed out from terror. They may be good for the garden, etc but I do not like them, in fact I have arachnophobia, so that encounter would have finished me.

And ants. Not a fan. There is a product called afterbite that works quick. Also plain old toothpaste. I always keep a tube of toothpaste handy for emergency insect bite treatment.