OK, I can relate to Chuck on this one. Not because spiders bug me, but because they seem to love my plane! I don't think I've ever done a preflight in the summer without finding one of the little buggers somewhere. Pitot tube, strut, cockpit, cowling, rudder hinge. You name it. I once flew a 250 mile cross country looking at a 6' strand of spider silk trailing from one strut the whole way. Even through a rain shower.
Funniest one was the spider that quickly decended from my strut/wing junction as I shut down after a flight. I could just hear the little bugger screaming "Let me outta here!!!!"
Phil