CENTRAL MAINE • July 24, 2024
We’re well into spider season in Maine now, which runs from July to about mid-September. By “spider season” I just mean this is the time when most of them are the most active, so you’re apt to notice them. Most spiders live outdoors, but some seem to prefer being indoors with people. The ones who have adapted whole lifestyles to human presence are referred to as “synanthropic,” such as house spiders, who are usually the ones who build the cobwebs on your doorframes, lights and cellar ceiling. House spiders are shy and run away long before they’d ever try to bite a human. Like almost all spiders, they’re dangerous to bugs, not us. ~ Dana Wilde