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Spiders and me

It's spiders season and I hate hate hate spiders.  I know spiders are good bugs but they just freak me out.  Fall is the season when spiders come out to mate and die.  If you look around the house and your garden, you'll begin to see more spider webs and a big fat spider will hang in the middle of the web.

I try to ignore them as long as they don't startle me.  The smaller house spiders don't scare me as much but those that hang around in the garden are big! Usually I leave the small spiders alone because they are good bugs for the garden, but when Fall comes, the big ones come out to haunt me.  Don't you hate it when you run into spider webs?   

I was doing some gardening work on the deck and my husband pointed out to me that my 'favorite' creature is back! I was not happy when I saw it, I knew spider season is back.  I literally had goosebumps.  I'm beginning to think I have a condition called Arachnophobia.  My husband tells me the only way to conquer the fear is to face the fear, so he said maybe I should just let the spider crawl up my arm.  (YEAH RIGHT!!)

Here's a picture of it hanging in mid-air.  No I was not standing as close as you think, I was brave enough to take this picture because I had a long zoom lens on my camera.

At the beginning of the season I used this bug spray around my deck and it seems to be doing a good job.  At least this was the only spider I've seen so far, it was worst last year.

Don't make fun of me but I have these spider traps inside the house.  :-)