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Spiders
Tomsk
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I notice various small and spindly spiders living in my plants. Do they harm them in any way, either by damaging the leaves or something else?
Today I noticed a spider had caught a bee in a flower of a gladiolus, though they never seemed to have an effect on caterpillars throughout the year.
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My nan uses conkers to scare off spiders.
Didn't work though. She recently got bitten by a false widow, which ironically was living in her bucket of conkers.
Thanks for the replies. I noticed that the spiders are usually found under shrivelled leaves, and wasn't sure if this was because shrivelled leaves provide a good canopy, or the spiders were biting into the leave to make them shrivel.
I was sad to see a bee caught by one, but I suppose that's nature.
I managed to bring a load of false widows in with a batch of fir cones last year, was scared at first but they have been fine, havent had any trouble at all with them
I made myself learn about them because i was really scared, they are great creatures, very important, plus my nan always said they were good luck!
I thought they helped detach bees from their webs?
Im okay with the little ones but the larger bodied ones with gangly legs I have to admit have me running for the hills ...