want spiders in your garden?

[Cakes]

Spring is the time for spider migration.

Lay down straw or other loose mulch for the spider habitat. After they move in, then they like to stay the rest of the year.

[midwestbluntman]

Is spiders benificial?I got a huge black fuzzy one that lives in the lab,I leave it alone and use it as a security method.The better half hates spiders so it keeps her fingers out the garden somewhat cause you never know where it is hiding.

[Cakes]

I read somewhere that if it wasn't for spiders, bugs would quickly overrun the world.

[midwestbluntman]

my spider might have migrated away,I havent had a grow going in months and havent seen him\her since the last grow.

[Cakes]

I think I might know where he is. I may have every kind spider here at my house so maybe your spider is here. The reason I wrote this thread is because I have had spiders crawling everywhere this week and it has reminded me about spider migration time. Now is the time. So everyone lay down your straw and grasses for the year and give these guys somewhere to live...PLEASE!! they are crawling up my legs under the computer desk and I can't take it anymore!!!

[peakguy]

Spiders are voracious feeders and are very beneficial to any garden - they are strictly meat eaters, not a vegetarian in all of arachnoidland.

[Cakes]

Arachnids also include mites.

[peakguy]

Right you are cakes. Luckily, I have never had to deal with them, but they are arachnoids. Will somebody please delete all my rep power?

[CB]

Will somebody please delete all my rep power?



why? :shrug:

[peakguy]

just being a smart ass 'cause I made error in 3/27 post.

[Cakes]

none of us would have any rep!

Plants are inhabited by little bacterium, chloroplasts (the guys that make the plant's chlorophyll), so technically it could be said that the mites are sucking on animal juices still.