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Originally Posted by BBS2
As creepy as these guys might be they are necessary...
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The little spiders
are prey for small birds. (Though the reverse is true in the tropics). Hummingbirds use spider web material to "cinch up" their tiny nests. (In nesting season, they raid the tiny branches of my dead -- but still-standing -- hemlocks regularly).
Dock spiders (fisher spiders) eat bug-eaters like small fish and tadpoles
in addition to bugs, so I don't have any qualms about "The Hunt". There was a bumper crop this past season, anyway.
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Originally Posted by BBS2
I love the jumping spiders, they are really curious.
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Though I've seen just one fuzzy, scarlet-colored jumping spider the size of a half-dollar, the little jumping spiders DO have an attitude.
Approach one with your index finger,
and they'll "grab" the threat!
(Is it "threat" or "prey", I wonder?)
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Originally Posted by BBS2
I just hate it when they crawl on you!!
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Dock spiders can run around on underwater surfaces, so you can't shake them by immersion, as
Mink Islander may have considered doing.