There was a jumping spider on my car today at a project site. It was a curious one, almost the size of a US dime.
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That'd be the right area (all of the US really).
If you catch one drop them off in your garden, he'll munch up the local micro-herbivores and also not build webs for you to walk into unexpectedly (orb weavers x.x).
Fucking orb weavers - bastards always put up massive webs overnight right where you're going to walk in the dark... Hahaha
Ran into so many as a kid.
When we'd ride ATVs in the forest the lead person had to bungee a branch to their grill to catch all of the orb weaver webs that had formed over the trails overnight. There would be 30-50 of them per mile, the branch just looks like cotton candy and arachnophobia after an hour or so.
Good to know! I wouldn't want to displace it from its fine industrial manufacturing home, but maybe if I see one in the yard I'll rehome it
Every one of these I find inside gets relocated to the garden... unless its winter, then they get a tour of the potted plants.
There's a spring nearby so the local treefrogs and anoles eat everything smaller than a mouse. The only spiders that survive are aforementioned orb weavers and I think they spend more time trying to catch me, as I'm taking out the garbage and barely awake, than eating insects.
Nothing worse than walking out in the middle of the night with the dog and getting a face full of orb Weaver web...
I broom handle that I keep near my trash bins specifically for trailblazing down the driveway.