Lisa,

Thanks for the warning. LOL

Did you know that in a grassland area (similar to where I live), studies have found from 1 million to 2 million spiders per acre? I don't know what the number would be like in a developed neighborhood, but surely not that high?

Spiders are basically good because they eat other insects. Unfortunately, far too many of us here in Oklahoma seem to frequently encounter Black Widows and Brown Recluses.

I'm not a huge fan of spiders in the house (or porch or garage), but I like seeing their webs in the yard, garden, pasture or woods. We used to have a lot of tarantulas here, but I see fewer and fewer every year it seems.

I use an organic product called Cobweb Eliminator to keep them from building webs in the tornado shelter, garage and on the porches. It basically interferes with their web's ability to adhere to the surfaces upon which the Cobweb Eliminator is sprayed. One spraying usually lasts about 3 months on the porches and a bit longer in the garage or tornado shelter.

Dawn

I like spiders. Outside. When we first moved out here we had those big garden spiders. Then I went and sprayed to get rid of the grass hoppers. I lost my spiders. This year I saw one the first in a few years. I will never spray again. I really missed my spiders.

I don't mind them....outside! Inside I'd rather not see them. If I find them in my tub they get washed down the drain, but generally I toss them outside if I catch them. Sometimes I just pretend I don't see them! I leave several windows cracked during spring, summer and fall. Even though there are screens on the windows, they are obviously not spider tight! I guess that's where most of them come in. Of course, I'm also hauling in flowerheads to de-seed, so some probably hop a ride there too.

Dawn, this year there might be that many :). I don't think I've seen any of the recluses or black widows, thank goodness. If I do, the spray is coming out!

...you should have seen me doing the limbo to get pic at just the right angle, high heels, stairs, it was a sight I'm sure!

Lisa

Plantermunn,

I'm glad your spider population is rebounding. I love those big black-and-yellow garden spiders (agiope spiders?). Some years we have lots and lots of them, but this year we haven't had as many.

Lisa,

The picture I REALLY want to see is you doing the limbo, in the high heels, on the stairs, leaning in or out at just the right angle to get that photo!

I hardly ever see brown recluses alive, but find a dead one in a closet every now and then. Black widows pop up in our garage every now and then, but not as much as they used to. One year, they laid eggs in the fingers of a gardening glove. I picked it up and found it full of black widow spiders.....luckily I looked inside BEFORE sticking a hand into the glove. (Since scorpions like to get into shoes and gloves, I've learned to check them before putting them on.)

It is almost time for spiders and webs and such....Halloween is coming!

Dawn