Natural History, November 1st, 2002
AImost every night of her life, my mother, compelled by an aversion to spiders, circled her bedroom with a long-handled brush. Sweeping it into corners, she dislodged all intruders and flicked them deftly out of the window. Spiders belonged outside. She would have been horrified, had she visited my house in the fall, to see so many forest wolf spiders running about indoors. And I doubt that even the charms of my resident daring jumping spider (Phidippus audax) could have won her over. My jumper appeared suddenly one morning in late summer. I was standing at the kitchen sink when the creature ...
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