Boy isn't that the truth! Anything that'll eat a black widow is
definitely a friend!! We also get brown recluse spiders here - I've seen
the damage they can do to a person, but never actually seen the spider...
No kidding, some spiders are really our firends. We have this
spider in FL, I'm sure he lives other places but I've only seen him here, that
is very interesting. He doesn't build a web but he jumps. They are about 3/8
inch long. light brown with dark brown markings and look "fuzzy." We moved to
FL from near Denver. The Denver area is over run with black widows. We must
have brough a few in the boxes with us. One day I was sitting on the pourch
having something to drink after being outside working and I saw this widow in
the corner. I was about ready to kill it when I saw one of these jumping
spiders out the corner of my eye who seemed to be approching the widow. At one
point he jumped the widow and proceeded to kill and eat her.
I said to
myself - I'm never killing one of these guys.
Truman
Suzi
Maiorisi wrote:
The golden orb spiders are FRIENDS...they catch grasshoppers in their
webs and eat them...grasshoppers in Texas are a huge problem. We even
have these little black and white fuzzy spiders that don't seem to make
webs, but live on every available door knob and those guys can catch a
grasshopper as it's flying by...NO LIE...I had been killing these until I
watched that lovely display! What I couldn't learn to live with (and
have some pretty funny pictures of my sister killing!) is the geckos...the
almost translucent ones...I know, they eat bugs, too, but geez Louise they
lived IN my house in Hawaii and you couldn't get them out. Friends
ended up giving me a gold Gecko charm for eventually learning to watch the
eggs hatch, LOL.
Happy Hunting,
Suzi.
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"The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his
integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity. The
person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his
integrity.For this reason, he lacks integrity."
