I never see spiders and I live in the basement and have here at my parents house on Ocqueoc Lake up here 5 minutes from Lake Huron. We are surrounded by woods and water. I have been spraying the basement with HOME DEFENSE inside and out of the house and basement. Now that it’s getting cold some really thick spiderwebs are along the wood in the rafters not swinging from rafter to rafter its along the wood. This spider I found on my bed and seen where the web fell with it. I moved my pillow before getting in my… Read more »
Hi, some spiders and insects do okay in cold weather. I learned this year that freezing air temperatures don’t kill ticks as well as I would like. Ticks are my least favorite arachnids. I know the thick webs that are on wood beams in the basement that can roll up into a kind of string. Those come from funnel web spiders. They prey on crawling insects by making thick sheets of web flat against vertical and horizontal surfaces. The web is twisted into a funnel, sort-of tornado-shaped. The spider pulls the twisted end into a hole or crevice and rests… Read more »
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I never see spiders and I live in the basement and have here at my parents house on Ocqueoc Lake up here 5 minutes from Lake Huron. We are surrounded by woods and water. I have been spraying the basement with HOME DEFENSE inside and out of the house and basement. Now that it’s getting cold some really thick spiderwebs are along the wood in the rafters not swinging from rafter to rafter its along the wood. This spider I found on my bed and seen where the web fell with it. I moved my pillow before getting in my… Read more »
Hi, some spiders and insects do okay in cold weather. I learned this year that freezing air temperatures don’t kill ticks as well as I would like. Ticks are my least favorite arachnids. I know the thick webs that are on wood beams in the basement that can roll up into a kind of string. Those come from funnel web spiders. They prey on crawling insects by making thick sheets of web flat against vertical and horizontal surfaces. The web is twisted into a funnel, sort-of tornado-shaped. The spider pulls the twisted end into a hole or crevice and rests… Read more »