Spider Season
What is spider season?
Fall in the Pacific Northwest means spiders! During this time, you might see more spiders around as they come out to find food and make their webs. You may have even walked into a web in your garden or seen them in your home. It's like a little spider party! Some spiders are busy spinning beautiful webs, while others are looking for a mate. This is a great time to learn about these cool creatures and how they help our environment.
Though they have a reputation of being scary predators who want to bite us, spiders are actually shy creatures that prefer to keep to themselves. They also help keep bug populations down by eating mosquitoes, gnats, garden pests, and other bugs that bother us!
Let's learn more about webs!
Try making your own web and see how many bugs you can catch!
Spider Season Word Search
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Where do spiders live?
They like to hang out in narrow pathways to stay safe from predators and hunt insects. These are some of the places where they might hang out:
Activity
Spiders are all around us, see if you can quietly observe spiders in your neighborhood!
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