"Eigenvector" wrote in message
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"Claire" wrote in message
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We have been spraying our bushes and with no avail, we still find fine
webs.
Our concern is will our bushes become diseased?

Thanks.
Claire


Don't kill the spiders on your bushes, they're probably the only thing
keeping the insects down from the bushes. Spiders aren't much affected by
insecticide anyway. Spiders aren't herbivores and they don't like plants.
Outdoor spiders won't come inside, and if they do the inside spiders will
get them if they don't dehydrate and die first.

I used to hate them with a passion, having gone into hand to hand combat
with them last winter in the basement I have since learned once they are
gone the REAL pests move in. Starve them out and they go on their own.


The only spiders I will go to battle with are the hobo spiders. We get a lot
of those this time of year. I wish there was some way to trap them without
getting the giant house spiders, but they look similar and have the same
habits, and will get caught in the same traps. But in the garden, I welcome
the spiders - and they are *everywhere*. I just wish they would eat all of
the cucumber beetles we have all over the place