Permaculture and spiders

A cellar spider eating a house fly. A tangle of legs and wings.

We have an entente with the cellar spiders in our house. We leave them to their own devices in the crevices and ceiling areas we don’t need, and they return the favour by policing all the other invertebrates. Pholcids eat flies and other spiders. They’ll eat each other if pushed. We’ve tried over time to …

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