Saturday 31 October 2009

There Then Came a Spider Who Sat Down Beside Her

It must be Halloween. There has been some media attention on the numbers of spiders in people's houses and gardens (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6460539/More-than-750-million-spiders-in-UK.html). Some people, of course, become very upset by spiders (thought to be a learned response) but all the Native UK spiders are completely harmless to humans and do an excellent job keeping down the numbers of flying insects who, like little vampires, can suck our blood, transport disease to our food or ravage 'our' crops. I personally think that we ought to love our eight-legged friends a bit more.

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