Spiders and their webs

Spiders get a lot of leeway around here. We don't use poisons of any type, so they are our primary form of insect pest control (rodents stay away because of the cat, but I doubt she could effectively catch one anymore). The yard is pretty much free reign for them, and the non aggressive ones are welcome in the house as well.

There have been a few times when they've had to go. We've had a couple of hunter spiders charge us (despite the fact that were about 50 thousand times bigger then they are), and we shuffle those off this mortal coil. What is more frequent is the comedy and tragedy of web placement mishaps.

My favorite was the web built between the trees next to our driveway and the car from a few weeks ago. Some spider had spent the sixteen or so hours between my parking the car and driving the car away building a fairly intricate web, and I'm sure it was a great place to catch bugs, both coming off the trees and flying around the car. I'm sure the spider worked very hard, and maybe she was crest fallen when this indestructible force of nature (or giant web wrecking yokel, or whatever else spiders perceive us as) came along and nonchalantly backed the car out of the driveway to run out for cat food.

Bad web placement happens all the time: Across the back door, between the garbage can and the posts on the porch, on ceiling fans, on lawn mower blades, and hundreds of other tragic and/or hilarious circumstances. They should hold web building seminars, so thousands of lives can be spared, and millions more insect pests can meet their spidery doom.