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Saratoga Springs creeped out by spiders

I'm waiting for someone to blame George Bush, Republicans, global warming, or the LDS church for the cyclical appearance of these spiders. Every few years we get an infestation like that. It's natural, but creepy too. Keep your place clean and be ready to smash them if they crawl inside.

You forgot to put Mitt's name in there to blame. Demos would!!

Now this is a surprise?
Before this new city was built, the area west of Utah Lake would periodically have millions and millions of spiders spin their webs in the sage brush. So many, it was on the news. I remember driving past and looking.

Hobo spiders are very dangerous, but they have never been reported acting like orb spiders.

Other areas of the state get spiders. I know I get them, but not in the numbers that west of Utah Lake has had them for as long as I can remember.

I hate to say it, but they were there first.

That is a great comment Culprit! I needed a good laugh this morning!

Absolutly right arc - the spider "bloom" is a normal occurence and has been occuring for many, many years. Isn't nature fun. The next thing you know people who've built houses near Utah Lake are going to be "surprised" when the lake level rises after a really wet spring. I'm sure someone can find a way to sue the developers.

We used to have these orb weavers in our farm yard in Colorado. They caught 100s of flies, and I really miss them. Black Widows have messy webs and a distinctive appearance not resembling orb weavers at all. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to learn how to determine the difference between these spiders and hobos and blown recluses as well. Spiders are part of nature.

Who says hobo spiders are "very dangerous"? There's an ongoing debate regarding their toxicity.

So were the Native Americans

Well there's another reason to not move out to west of Utah lake. you guys built there and now you have to deal with it! haha! I'll stay in the riverbottoms! haah! have fun w/ the spiders! :)

think, the flies and grasshoppers will get caught in the spider web. Natural pests control......LOL!!

Yep arc - I've been over on West Mountain in the middle of so many spiders it was unbelievable... and then a couple of days later there was an article in Desnews about it... but I guess developers over on the west side didn't want to tell residents about spider blooms.

Oh well, the next thing the west-side residents will say is "Hey, we just noticed that we only have one two lane road from Lehi out to our homes - we need a better road - the access is terrible" and "Oh, there is a giant lake over here that we think we should build a causeway across".

Enjoy the west side, your commute, the misquotes, and your spiders! ;-)

Maybe someone out there should explore pest control?

I don't know why we are having a spider epidemic , but our house is loaded with HOBO's, Yellow-sacs, and black widows. I have been bit twice this summer while gardening and have spent half my summer in bed from being sick from spider venom. I keep my house clean but we still have ton's of spiders, and spiders in many sizes and colors. And when the spiders aren't killing and eating each other, they are biting me. I finely decided to go to the store and buy some spider traps, and that worked for about a month or more. But the spider traps had finely reached there total limit of at least 100 spiders per trap, so I then had to go and buy some new traps. By now though, I am quite paranoid of crawly things that bite in the the dark.

Well isn't it nice to see someone who lives in the Riverbottoms laugh at someone less fortunate. I hope you don't call yourself a christian.

Natural human control too. I wonder how many people die from poisonous spider bites each year? which they go undetermined by medical doctors? Salt Lake has way too many spiders this summer, and they seem to be everywhere, and nothing gets rid of them. I have tried everything including the spidie traps.

When I lived in Springville, Utah I had to sleep with Black Widows or they slept with me. But after a while they disaperd and neither my 7 year old Son nor I have been bitten or botherd by them.

I remember fondly camping just south of Saratoga Springs while growing up. There always were tons of spiders near the lake and plenty of rattlesnakes in the hills. It is good to see that even though man has intruded on their nesting grounds the spiders have thrived to keep the real pests like mosquitoes in check.

I live in CA and tarantulas live nearby. I haven't ever seen one in suburbia, only on field trips to the mountains with my kids and a docent was holding one. Apparently they live underground and only come out in the fall during mating season. A lady in my ward built a HUGE, gorgeous home in the foothills. The first fall they were there, they discovered they were in the migration path for those big hairy fellas lookin for love. There were hundreds of them in her driveway and yard. They'd fall in the pool and drowned and then clog her pool filter. She even found one in her house. Forget a live in maid, I'd want a live in pest control dude!!!! Personally, dream house or not, I'd move. However they stuck it out and it got better each year. The monsters found a safer way for sex. Aint love grand?

We all need to get together and figure out what to do about the spiders in S. L. City, this year, they await us all.

I knew a kid who went to the hospital years ago who had paralysis from being bitten by a black widow. They found that this kid had rolled over on the widow spider and killed and smashed it, but it had bit him first.

You say that the native americans were there first. I don't think they spent their time in that part of Utah county. They hunted better animals than spiders.