I once came across a jumping spider that seemed to register my face somehow... It spit a piece of web out at me and jumped on my nose. They are way too small to bite a human and perhaps one of the most beautiful predators on the planet.
using spiders to guard your garden
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i put him in there and i haven't seen a gnat since! the little guy is earning his keep for sure.
wishdoctor- i've got tons of bugs. and microbes, and fungi and all sorts of good shit. they're all part of the magical world of a functioning organic soil ecosystem.
wishdoctor- i've got tons of bugs. and microbes, and fungi and all sorts of good shit. they're all part of the magical world of a functioning organic soil ecosystem.
we hung out yesterday while i started to trellis my plants. we're tight now. i named him gale.
I'm a recovering arachnaphobe, but we keep them in the house....we don't kill them. If I find one upstairs, I catch it in a cup with an envelope over the top and relocate them downstairs. Spiders eat bugs, so they can stay. There is one kind of spider in my region that is really aggressive and I'll take those ones outside if it's not winter.....hoping it won't make it's way back up to stalk me...lol. Don't kill spiders, bad, bad grow karma.
^Lol at the person who named the spider Gale! I had one for a long time we named Steve.
^Lol at the person who named the spider Gale! I had one for a long time we named Steve.
good words out there guys. I would throw a spider or 2 inside if I ever had a pest problem. Thing is, you catch an occasional web or tiny wolf spider now and then - generally, they creep me out though.
What do you guys think is the best indoor predator?
Spiders, Lady bugs, mantis, other?
What do you guys think is the best indoor predator?
Spiders, Lady bugs, mantis, other?
not all spiders are good, at least in your grow or home.
for the obvious is poisonous spiders like black widdows or whatever you have locally.
the others are web spiders, chances are the spider wont listen when you say keep the webs off the buds, getting rid of gnats but having spiderwebs all over your buds is shitty. i dont want to smoke spider webs.
jumping spiders don't make webs only strings to get from one far place to another( think safety rope), if you have a bed system or grow outdoors, wolf spiders are amazing predators who live in the mulch, also making VERY minimal webs if any.
for the obvious is poisonous spiders like black widdows or whatever you have locally.
the others are web spiders, chances are the spider wont listen when you say keep the webs off the buds, getting rid of gnats but having spiderwebs all over your buds is shitty. i dont want to smoke spider webs.
jumping spiders don't make webs only strings to get from one far place to another( think safety rope), if you have a bed system or grow outdoors, wolf spiders are amazing predators who live in the mulch, also making VERY minimal webs if any.
most homes in north america have an interesting denizen: the daddy longlegs, or "vibrating spider" (not to be confused with the harvestman, which is not actually a spider). They are an excellent indoor control for webbed spiders, which they eat by mimicking their movement on the web, standing over the victim, and spitting a bunch of web down before leisurely biting. They make the cobwebs in your basement. They don't hunt from their "webs", but if you disturb one it will shake and vibrate to make itself look bigger.
They can't survive outside any more than your tropical plants can, but they are almost everywhere. Once they run out of spiders, they eat each other.
They can't survive outside any more than your tropical plants can, but they are almost everywhere. Once they run out of spiders, they eat each other.
