To my knowledge I have no phobias. I certainly give snakes their space and the leave me alone. With spiders, if they are inside, I kill them on the wife's orders. They all make a web of some sort, and they produce spider crap that will need to be cleaned up.
Spiders outside I leave alone unless they make a web across the doorway area.
This lady made a cool web in our Koi pond area. She ate a lot of bugs, and then I think a bird or one of the skinks got her. The old food chain at work.
The dogs alerted up to this critter. We just locked the dogs in the side yard, and it left in short order.
Our mighty hunter keeps the mouse population in control. He is my early warning system. If he is circling the storage building I know it is time to put out traps.