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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PamCz" data-source="post: 44996" data-attributes="member: 3784"><p>We get all kinds of spiders on the front porch where the porch light is....widows, long legs, little huntsman-looking ones.  Even seen some jumpers out there.  The light attracts prey, so (duh) it attracts spiders.  I captured one that I found in my bathtub a few months ago, just a house spider, cuz it looked dehydrated.  It was a bit curled.  Put it in a tall pill jar, moist substrate, sprayed so there were droplets everywhere.  I saw it drink, so I left to run errands.  Came home...it was dead.  Oh, well.  That's the only one I've ever captured.  I have however fed a BIG female orb weaver of some kind that was outside my back door last summer.  She had an egg sac, and would just sit there all day and night.  So, I threw in a few bugs, and she'd kill them, etc.  Fun with nature....lol. Nature is just happy to get a free meal! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>