Some of the common insects controlled by spiders include aphids, caterpillars, cucumber beetles, flies, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, plant bugs, and thrips. Because of their beneficial nature, garden spiders should be conserved. Avoid the use of broad-spectrum insecticides or insecticides containing pyrethrum or synthetic pyrethroids. Other practices that conserve spiders is to leave a portion of the garden covered in organic mulch or plant a cover crop to provide an overwintering site for egg masses. There are two general groups of spiders the web spinners and the hunters.
Web spinning spiders, as their name implies, create elaborate orbs of silk to capture their prey.
These spiders typically are found in, or near their webs laying in wait for their unsuspecting prey. They are typically more delicate in nature than their wandering relatives. Hunting spiders on the other hand, are robust and mobile and actively track down their prey. If you ve every watched a spider spin a web you were likely impressed by it s skill and adeptness. To begin construction, a spider sends a single thread out into the breeze until it catches onto something.