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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I live in the opposite corner of the city, but I don't mind the spiders. Admittedly, I don't have as many around as you do. But I do allow one to live on my back light because he really does keep the moth and mosquito population in check. The past two years I have had one living there on the light (presumably relatives), and we have learned to coexist. When I unlock the back door I always look up what's going on. During the day, not much, but at night it is sometimes a full-on insect feast.
Here's what he looked like - apparently they're called "wood spiders" around these parts. The photo makes it look scarier and bigger than he was, however. At his peak plumpness, his body was about the size of a jellybean. (not my photo):
I was actually a little sad when he started to get smaller and smaller as the weather got colder in the fall. He lasted surprisingly long, but during a cold snap and snowfall he finally packed it in and his little corpse was sitting on top of the garbage can on the fresh snow.
All of that being said, stay the #### out of my house. Although, on the odd occasion that I find a spider in my house (small ones - never as big as my pal on the light), I always try and get them outside instead of killing them. |
I went camping out to Boulton Creek in K Country with the family a couple years ago and for whatever reason, these spiders were everywhere! All over the trees, making huge weblines across the road, climbing down from the trees on webs at night and hanging out on us while we were sitting around the fire. It was HELL! There seemed to be a huge amount of those little white moths around, which I assumed was why there was such a huge spider population, but I could not relax at all. I wanted to roll in the fire every night just to make sure I wasn't bring one into the trailer...