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Cellar Spiders: Leggy Pest Control in Your Home or Mine

Cellar Spiders: Leggy Pest Control in Your Home or Mine

Update: 2025-05-23
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Possibly the most common non-human resident in the average home is the long-bodied cellar spider. These innocuous beasties provide non-toxic, round-the-clock pest control for just the price of a small place to live. And although there are those who'd be less than thrilled by these little guests, they keep actual pest populations in check. This episode discusses how you can document the guests in your home and share them for posterity and science.


The episode art is modified from a photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Ryan Hodnett.

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Cellar Spiders: Leggy Pest Control in Your Home or Mine

Cellar Spiders: Leggy Pest Control in Your Home or Mine

Declan McCabe