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Des Higgins writes:
| On May 11, 12:16=A0pm, "Wally" wrote:
|
| And can I hope that they will eat the flies and
| bugs that live off my vegetables?
|
| Wolf spiders (genus Pardosa from Lycosidae) are small (body about
| small or medium finger nail size) and dark and run around. They catch
| prey on foot so to speak and you seem them all over when the soil is
| open. They run very fast and the females often carry bags of eggs
| attached to their rear ends. You do not get them much indoors.

The ones in my childhood were body about walnut size, and you did get
them indoors. Scary but harmless - unlike the snakes and scorpions!

| All spiders are good and nice anyway although they will probably not
| eat any of the flies or bugs you are worried about. Ladybirds might
| be better at that.

They will unquestionably eat some. Probably not a lot.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.