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M y husband and I moved into his parents’ house when they moved out 2 years ago. They would routinely spray the house for spiders every year. I refuse to do this for multiple reasons, but dang if this house doesn’t have literally thousands of spiders!

I can cobweb the house and they will be back within 24 hours. No joke. I have been doing up a piece of furniture and every day I have to get rid of the cobwebs again. We went away for two days and when we got back the washing line had them. We will mow the lawn and the next morning they will be on the lawn. Etc etc etc

I don’t understand why there is such a high population of them. The house is only 14 years old and my in-laws had no garden. There’s a garden now but the house is kept clean etc (I realise this post makes it sound like an abandoned witches house). My theory is that because it was sprayed so regularly there aren’t enough larger predatory spiders like huntsmen to keep the little spiders in check? Any theories?

My husband is convinced that this is normal and everyone else either sprays routinely or cobwebs obsessively. We are in rural Australia.

This is a native wildflower in my area. It started growing on its own in an area where grass isn’t put down yet and I’m planning on keeping it that way. How should I encourage this growth? I do plan on finding another couple of native wildflowers and scattering them around.

https://x.com/offgridstone/status/1906769371248345489

https://x.com/offgridstone/status/1906769371248345489

Here’s a link to the tweet in case anyone was worried it wasn’t real:
https://x.com/offgridstone/status/1906769371248345489

I live on an urban lot of about 1/2 acre in zone 7a and have been designing a food forest. I’ve seen people in similar situations include small ponds but I don’t really understand the why. Space is limited…is using it for a pond worthwhile? It wouldn’t be big enough for eatin’ fish. I may be skeptical because of my dearest partner’s expensive, failed stock tank pool project. 😅