LOS ANGELES TIMES - Move over, dogs. We’re entering the spider days of summer.
When it warms up, spiders come out of their hidey-holes. Not to tan, but to catch their bread and butter: bugs.
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“There’s no sense making a web … if there’s nothing to eat,” said Rick Vetter, a retired research associate in UC Riverside’s entomology department. “You don’t go fishing where there’s no fish.”
Silk, what the spiders make to build their webs, is “energetically important,” Vetter added, so spiders won’t go wasting it during cold months when prey is scarce.