For Those of us who have gardens, we realize the benefits of spiders and the contribution they make in keeping the balance of nature as well as being predators for various creatures which harm our gardens!
Most of us have walked down a path adjoining our house and have walked into the pesky spider web..A face full of arghhhhh spider web.
Hopefully you haven’t walked directly into the spider and have been bitten..that is the worst and should be treated immediately..
Spiders, however are very beneficial to the food chain in that they are constantly predating on harmful insects:
This is how Norman Platnick, a noted arachnologist, talks about spider conservation.
“If spiders disappeared, we would face famine,” says Platnick, who studies arachnids at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where a live spider exhibit debuted this month. “Spiders are primary controllers of insects. Without spiders, all of our crops would be consumed by those pests.”
So, the next time that you want to kill the spider think again and try to be gentle and move the little helper to another location.
Go over to the next page and watch the video which offers a humane and safe way to move the spider Every gardener should have this simple device. It is inexpensive to build and is totally humane to the spider.
Remember, the spider can be your garden’s best friend along with water and weeding
