I mean, this wound up being Skitter's whole shtick in Worm, didn't it? I think it'd be funny if they made Taylor an official parallel univers spider woman. Arthropod woman?

Same with Jubilee. What you gonna do, set off fireworks outside my bedroom all day and night...? Hmm. Touche

I feel like I might be able to reason with a spider (however remote that possibility might be). At least predators have at least a little ability to reason. Maybe, just maybe, they'll decide that I'm more trouble than I'm worth. Spiders also seem unlikely to team up. You're maybe dealing with a couple competing to win Spider-Man's favor, but I'd not expect them to cooperate.

On the other hand, dealing with ants would be like fighting a fast unreasoning zombie horde, a literal flood of nashing venomous mandibles and with a singular, laser focused, drive to do violence. All they know is violence to achieve their queen's (Antman's) goal at any cost to any particular individual. That is MUCH scarier to me.

If you think about it, without Peter inventing web fluid, there is nothing spider-like about his powers.

i think NYC got more infested with crime with spiderman, and avengers around. mostly because the villians would go to new york and cause havoc.