Spiders - Beneficial?

[growcdxx]

Well I was watering my plants today and I noticed a few of my plants had some spiderwebs on them. No, not spider mites, just some regular spiderwebs with regular spiders. The webs had a few small insects in them. So this made me wonder. Is having spiders in your plants a good thing? I don't think they or their webs harm the plants any - and their webs catch some of the small pests that tend to gnaw on your plants.

So, are spiders okay? I don't like the idea of having bugs in my plants.. but what's it going to harm? By the way these webs are small and scarce, just a few between some of the branches.

[davoplot]

Id just get rid of em.
If you have a bug problem in the future, just catch some lady bugs and theyl
do a greater bennifit than spiders.Spiders lay eggs and ALLOT of them.
I just spray neem oil on plants mainly tho, because youd have bug shit on your plants.

[growcdxx]

Originally Posted by davoplot

Id just get rid of em.
If you have a bug problem in the future, just catch some lady bugs and theyl
do a greater bennifit than spiders.Spiders lay eggs and ALLOT of them.
I just spray neem oil on plants mainly tho, because youd have bug shit on your plants.

I went shoppin for some neem oil and nobody had it. I ended up getting some other "organic insecticide" in a spray bottle, I can't remember the name of the stuff though. I just sprayed the shit all over my plants and on all the bugs I could find on the plants. I seen a few of them hit the ground dead, yet some of them persisted. Maybe it'll kill em off slow like eventually though. And hopefully no harm comes to my plants... I think they should be fine though because it's organic and doesn't persist in the environment, and was said to be safe for use on flowers and vegetables.

[davoplot]

Make sure that spray doesnt have any giberolic acid in it.
This will make male flowers.(I learned it the hard way a few years back)