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Don't do what I did new folks, spiders can go w/o eating
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<blockquote data-quote="tapkoote" data-source="post: 156928" data-attributes="member: 17661"><p>Heat source is a funny subject. One person scolded "if you can't keep a room at 70* you shouldn't keep spiders". I disagree, B smithi lives under ground, not too far below the surface it's a constant 55*. My furnace comes on only in the morning, heats to 65*, if it's cold I'll start a wood fire. And I've noticed if the house gets over 90*, these two go into the cave. The house gets below 60* they head for the heat source, which is a 25 watt bulb. And when it's really cold out they can sense the wood stove blazing away, and sit in that corner. I believe these spiders could live ,(in a burrow) anywhere it doesn't freeze more than a night or two at a time. So that would be California and across the south USA.</p><p> However over the last 3 years I find these two enjoy the extra heat lamp in the winter up here in that pacific northwest.</p><p> Last winter we had 3 weeks of snow and freezing temps,in a row, the spiders in the wood pile didn't die, the ones who hitched a ride in on fire wood became room mates once they warmed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tapkoote, post: 156928, member: 17661"] Heat source is a funny subject. One person scolded "if you can't keep a room at 70* you shouldn't keep spiders". I disagree, B smithi lives under ground, not too far below the surface it's a constant 55*. My furnace comes on only in the morning, heats to 65*, if it's cold I'll start a wood fire. And I've noticed if the house gets over 90*, these two go into the cave. The house gets below 60* they head for the heat source, which is a 25 watt bulb. And when it's really cold out they can sense the wood stove blazing away, and sit in that corner. I believe these spiders could live ,(in a burrow) anywhere it doesn't freeze more than a night or two at a time. So that would be California and across the south USA. However over the last 3 years I find these two enjoy the extra heat lamp in the winter up here in that pacific northwest. Last winter we had 3 weeks of snow and freezing temps,in a row, the spiders in the wood pile didn't die, the ones who hitched a ride in on fire wood became room mates once they warmed up. [/QUOTE]
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