It’s ‘Save a Spider Day’ (In the USA) on March 13th
What good are spiders?
You might have heard the question…… ‘What good are spiders?’ Which usually translates as ‘What good are spiders to us?’
Apart from their intrinsic right to be here, spiders do humans a power of good as well.
Spider silk has been traditionally used in constructing nets, clothing and even the reticle (crosshairs) in telescopic sights.
Spiders are an important source of food in many human cultures, and are seen as good luck charms or totems in others; the creatures that spin life and all creation into being.
Most importantly, spiders play a fundamental role in natural ecosystems – the enormous bulk of spiders support a large proportion of ‘insectivorous’ animals, and quite a few vertebrate species feed almost exclusively on spiders alone. Birds not only eat spiders but many use spider silk to bind their nests.
- source: Museums Victora
