Basement spiders

[Van Chocstraw]

Why do spiders make webs in my basement. There are no flies down there.

[Stormin Mormon]

Eternal optomists.

[DerbyDad03]

Do you think that spiders only eat flies?

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What do spiders eat?

All spiders are predators. They do not eat plants, but only other living animals. Insects, spiders, invertebrates, some small vertebrates are the typical prey items.

[vict0r]

Maybe there are no flies because the spider has taken care of them all.

[Oren]

If you live in Berkeley or SF the spiders turned Vegan and only make the webs, because of learned behavior.

[Bert Byfield]

Spiders just sit there conserving energy. A rare bug now and then will keep at least some of them alive enough to make babies and continue the cycle. And there are no birds or bats in the basement that eat spiders.

[The Daring Dufas]

Yea, they show up at the community food bank and beg for turnips.

TDD

[HeyBub]

Some Vegans eat eggs because they support a woman's right to choose.

[Harry K]

Minor correction. One vegetarian species was recently found. Don't recall the details now but it lives on only one species of plant and IIRC in S America. The grouipd Talk.Origins reported on it but I have no idea what search terms would be needed to search for it.

Harry K

[The Daring Dufas]

Google "vegetarian spider"?

TDD

[RicodJour]

R

[FlavorFlav]

Basement spiders are very evil. Not like their cousins, the Bathroom spider.

[ransley]

Look under the web to see what kind of bugs are on the floor. I used to have alot of spiders in the basement until I sealed the holes up, now the spider just eat some type of beatle, but only one is left out of hundreds I had before.

[Stormin Mormon]

A bathroom spider on the miror has eight arms and legs to come hair, brush teeth, and apply eyeliner. Bathroom spiders are highly prized as employees in hair salons.

Just stay the heck away from pickpocket spiders in train stations.

[Harry K]

I do an annual 'feed the bugs' using those bug bombs. Oddly they don't seem to care for the taste.

Harry K

[Jeff The Drunk]

To catch other spiders and creepy crawlers.

[Jon Danniken]

You mean they don't practice tolerance and celebrate diversity?

Jon

[Eric]

Wow... they must be very patient! What do they do, spin a web then wait for a plant to grow into it?

;^)

Eric

[Robert Green]

Those teensy flies aren't called "noseeums" for nothing! I'm sure the spiders are eating something you're just not able to see. After all, the spiders got in to build nests, so there's some way for outside things to get it. The webs I find are near lights (more accurately underneath them) and near doors, windows, or anyplace where there's a slight airflow. As someone else noted, the lack of natural predators also means that a spider's whole egg output might survive, leading plenty of offspring to set up shop in areas that won't produce any food. I found little dead spiders in the basement inside of RX bottles I had on the bench top. Apparently starved to death waiting for a meal that never came.

-- Bobby G.

[DerbyDad03]

re: "I found little dead spiders in the basement inside of RX bottles I had on the bench top. Apparently starved to death waiting for a meal that never came."

..or OD'ed