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Please Never Hurt A Spider
Wildlife in decline will only get better with your help
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, Currents, and Ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
Spider Man At the front door
Ding dong. A man came to our porch.
We were watching Wayward Pines, escaping dystopia by way of a dystopia.
“We have a special right now,” he began, “we are helping your neighbors kill spiders, ants, beetles, and other…”
He was an exterminator.
That’s about as far as he got.
After a super cheery explanation as to why we wouldn’t be buying, “I love spiders and bugs,” he tried to spin his web a little wider, talking about “ecological options” such as diatomaceous earth for ant control.
But, he had already lost me — at spiders.
Spiders are fantastically cool. They are insanely helpful. They are incredibly harmless. Of about 40,000 species only a dozen have venom — usually harmless venom.
What a tingled web they weave
Spiders usually have eight eyes. They also sense by vibration. They can spin fibers as light as air, yet as strong as steel.