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From: TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu (Fred Ullom)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Stupid Spider Question
Message-ID: <91042.103943TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 15:39:43 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State University VM system (YSUB)
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Ok, I've been killing these little brown house spiders every chance I
get,see, and my wife said about a month ago that I shouldn't kill them
cause they eat other nasty insects,see... BUT I said that in the house,
their only predator is man so its my job to keep the spider population
down. SO, I decided to quite killing spiders for awhile and sure enough
I now have 5 or 6 spiders on the bathroom ceiling instead of 1 or 2.

So, what limits the house spider population in the world if humans don't
intervene? and what do these little monsters live on when they seem to
spend their whole life wandering about my bathroom ceiling?

Thanks,
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tacon019@ysub.ysu.edu (Fred S. Ullom)
Youngstown State University
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