ejones0310 wrote:
I am with you, but before I kill one indoors, I will try to trap it and take it back outside. That is except for fiddlebacks and black widows. Ther are immediately squashed even if outside. If the other spiders are too hard to catch, then I just dispatch them before they can get away.
I never saw a black widow except in photos until last year. Then I saw two in separate habitats, which makes me believe they were different spiders. Attempts to dispatch both failed. They are quick.
The orb weavers are good at keeping the flying nuisance insects down and the stalkers hunt the ones that are pest to plants and agriculture as well as the ones that like to make their way into our homes. Several spiders hunt other spiders so there is a natural balance in effect. Strangest are the wasps like mud daubers that hunt and paralyze spiders and entomb them with their eggs for the emerging larvae to eat. If you ever see a mud dauber clod that has yet to have an exit hole in it, open it up and you'll find it full of spiders. Here's one that I opened that is full of spiders.