Entry 1
My first observation is made within my house. There were always a few cellar spiders living at the corners of our ceilings so we have to assume that there are smaller insects that live in the house because the spiders needs to feed on something to survive. However, we never seem to see what exactly those insects are. Therefore we could assume that the cellar spiders have been doing a great job at keeping the house pest-free. Occasionally, some flies get into the house when we open the doors to the outside. Most of the windows are closed and we never find fly bodies so we could assume that the cellar spider has ate them as well.
There was a sudden increase of moth in the house due to the dried-food and rice we have. We have been finding larva crawling in these places. At night we would find a lot of moths flying in the house, there would be a flock flying out of the oven when we open it because that is where we store the dried-food. There would also be a few flying around in the bag of rice. Then I noticed an increase of cellar spiders in the house. There used to be around 3 in the whole house. But then now there is at least 1 in every corner that is near the window, they tend to stay at the corners near the windows. There were also an increase of spiders that were not cellar spiders because these had really thick legs and different patterns. After realizing that there are more cellar spiders, I also realized that there was a decrease in moths. Due to the increase of food supply, there was an increase of spiders. Then after the spiders increased, there was a decrease in moths. My next assumption would be that the number of spiders will decrease because the amount of food has decreased.
Many people will remove the spiders because they keep leaving webs in the corners. However, these spiders are beneficial as they can get rid of pests and even other more dangerous spiders. It is stated, "One beneficial aspect to these pholcid spiders is that they often eat other spiders and are quite capable of killing and eating black widows. In fact, you may often see a pholcid spider web in close proximity to a black-widow web. It is just a matter of time before the pholcid kills and consumes the black widow. There is no reason to kill these spiders." While it may bother some people, the spiders should remain where they are to get rid of other pests.
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