Rain prevented yard work two weekends ago. It happens and I anticipate it every summer; however, I didn't expect the spider invasion.
My agreement with the orb spiders is I will leave them alone; as long as they don't build a web I can walk through, think I might walk through, is too close to where I might walk through, or hidden in a place I could venture without looking. They didn't follow the rules, so it was a spider massacre.
I sprayed at least thirty. How they managed to get out of hand in such a short period of time is beyond me. I know there will be more this weekend. Those higher in the trees will venture down lower and it will be on again.
I'm ready. I have a full sprayer and plenty of insecticide.
One of the quickest ways to get a full grown man to scream like a little girl is to have him walk through an orb weavers web.
ReplyDeleteWe have some pretty good sized barn spiders around here. And like you, I generally don't bother them as long as they 1, stay outdoors, and 2, don't build their web where I can walk into it.
Orb weavers are fascinating to watch. They can put up a very intricate web in a very short period of time.
We haven't had the warblers this year. Last year, there were three and they kept the spiders to a minimum. Usually, only a migrating bird will arrive during late summer and decimate the population. One day, a half hundred spider high in the trees. The next, nothing but webs with a huge hole in the middle.
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