The window spider – plucking fruit flies from the air

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I especially enjoyed this essay on the Middle Aged Soup blog. I, too, never kill a spider in the house and I think she does a fine job of explaining why. (Funnel web spiders and Black Widows and Brown Recluse are exceptions to my rule.)

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via Daily Prompt: Pluck

When I was nine, the boys in the neighborhood dared me to pull the legs from a daddy long leg. Being the only girl in the group I just had to, and then I had no choice but to kill him. I cried for a week, for years after I caught all the spiders I could inside to “free” them outside. I feel like I have been called as the the Lorax for spiders, always cautioning people that they want spiders in their life.

Last year a plague of fruit flies came to my house. We set out wine glasses stretched tight with saran wrap and poked an indented hole in the center, Google heralded this as the DIY solution. They worked for the most part but the plague ran deep. About three days in I was washing dishes when to my surprise a jumping spider…

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4 thoughts on “The window spider – plucking fruit flies from the air”

  1. johannamassey711's avatarJoHanna Massey

    I do not kill spiders either. Nor clean out the webs they build in the outside of the window corners. It is amazing to watch the hummingbirds ‘harvest’ the webs to use in their nest building. Thank you. All my best.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I had wasps build a nest in between my window bars and window on my hall window. It was fascinating as they connected the wasp to the glass so I could look inside the hive! When I had housesitters, they had Pasiano remove it and I was crushed! I love watching nature at work.

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      1. johannamassey711's avatarJoHanna Massey

        Me too. There was a health food store that had an actual beehive attached to the back wall of the store with a large glass panel looking into the hive. Thank you for a lovely post. All my best to you.

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