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Thread ID: 73603 2006-10-26 02:59:00 I wish id followed this advice years ago... John W (523) PC World Chat
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494408 2006-10-26 20:27:00 And why would I want to kill all my helpful fly=eating spiders?:(

Just how many flys do you think a spider eats in, say a month? A week? A day?

It's more like 1 fly every 2.3 weeks or so. This is for a large, very hungry and pro-active spider too!

Not a good ratio for me!

I have a biology major friend who told me that!

To make a serious dent in the fly count, you'd need more spiders than flys...not a good scene in my eyes either!

My neighbor also told me that if just one pair of mated flys had all their offspring survive and reproduce like their parents, in just 6 months the whole earth would be over 4 feet deep in dead flys. Ugh!

Something more than fly-eating spiders is at work here.
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494409 2006-10-26 21:18:00 I used to think spiders were horrible things, but I changed my mind when I saw cockroaches. Marnie (4574)
494410 2006-10-26 21:24:00 spiders and cockroaches.... <shudder> mejobloggs (264)
494411 2006-10-26 21:26:00 And cockroaches were developed to take the heat off politicians ;) R2x1 (4628)
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