Garden Buddies

[BinkyPiler]

Checked on the ladies and found this lil guy taking up residence on my Deathstar. What do y'all do with squatters like this? Let em hang till flowering starts? Get rid of em stat? Thanks for any info and for reading!

 

[1diesel1]

Checked on the ladies and found this lil guy taking up residence on my Deathstar. What do y'all do with squatters like this? Let em hang till flowering starts? Get rid of em stat? Thanks for any info and for reading!

Keep em. They'll protect your garden from invaders. That's a big one

 

[MamaBear]

That's a mama Jumping Spider on her nest. They are the best "hunting" spiders out there. Leave her and watch her babies hatch. They are a trip to watch, running up and down the stems gobbling up everything in their path! Thrips and mites are perfect food for baby Jumping Spiders. They will keep your plants CLEAN!!! My greenhouse has become an official nursery for them.

 

[Paul Simon]

That is the hired helped. They will eat the bigger nasties that like the bhang.

 

[We Solidarity]

Keep them. I just watched a jumping spider nail a fly on my window, def some of the best bugs to have around.

 

[BinkyPiler]

Right on. Thanks for the input. Only downside to having her around is come flower time, I don't want a bunch spider webs on my flowers nor a bunch of baby carcasses that may get stuck on sticky nugs.

 

[MamaBear]

Not to worry! Jumping spiders don't usually make webs. They do make ones like you've got for their nest but they don't make big messy snare-webs like other spiders do. I've never had them get stuck in the buds, they prefer to run up and down the stems and leaves.

 

[BinkyPiler]

Thanks MamaBear. I'll prolly still move em out once flower kicks off, but until then I'll let them squat.

 

[Growfellaz]

This guy always hangs out and waits for me to water so he can steal a drink

 

[BinkyPiler]

I have no idea what kind of lizard it was, but I watched one run away from under a pot the other day. Friggin huge! Never seen a lizard that big. Wasn't the weird neck kind. Crazy. This guy and some equally awesome brothers live in the barn and drop turds all around the fence.

 

[DrMcSkunkins]

I have no idea what kind of lizard it was, but I watched one run away from under a pot the other day. Friggin huge! Never seen a lizard that big. Wasn't the weird neck kind. Crazy. This guy and some equally awesome brothers live in the barn and drop turds all around the fence.

Probably related to a fence lizard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_fence_lizard

 

[BinkyPiler]

Probably related to a fence lizard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_fence_lizard

I'm in PNW. It wasn't scaly like that one. More salamander like. Slimy looking.

 

[MamaBear]

Cool! Lizards and salamanders both eat lots of bugs. Wish I had a few roaming around in my yard! We've got grasshoppers everywhere this year.

 

[BinkyPiler]

I've had to put the stomp on a few grasshoppers this season. Dang lil buggers.