
Comments & ID Thoughts
No idea
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- Submitted: May 29, 2018
- Photographed: May 20, 2018
- Spider: Phidippus audax (Bold Jumper)
- Location: Boise, Idaho, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
This is a bold jumping spider. Phidippus audax
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I don’t like spiders this family have made a home under the tarp covering my lawnmower. I found one underneath my trash can lid how do I kill or get rid of them.
Please don’t kill them. They are harmless and don’t live in family groups. If you kill them just because they aren’t to your liking they will die pointless deaths. There will be more insects or spiders to replace them in those locations and you will be forever killing little animals to create a feeling of power and control over a sterile empty world. They choose to be where insects are so that they can eat. Flies breed in trash cans, the spiders want to eat the newly emerged flies that get trapped under the lid. Cleaning the organic debris (splattered… Read more »