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Hello!
First off I have to compliment you on your wonderful website! What a great resource for experienced entomologists and beginners alike. I especially love how your answer to how to remove insects from a house is to "capture and remove them" A google search to find out the type of scarab my boyfriend and I saw today (which turned out to be a rainbow scarab, unfortunately being devoured by fire ants…grrrr) brought us to your site. I thought you might enjoy a story that might give you a good laugh! While working for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California, my coworker and I lived in field housing. Being out in the middle of nowhere and on an old dairy, naturally we had a lot of anthropod residents in our house, including what I just call "house spiders" (We also had at least 4 gorgeous female black widow spiders residing on the outside of our house until the entire house was sprayed for cinch bugs which naturally killed EVERYTHING…grrr again!). One of my coworker and I’s activities that we enjoyed was to stun houseflies and then "feed the pet spiders" It never ceases to amaze me watching how a spider catches its prey. In our tv room we had 3 spiders that shared adjoining webs made over the flourescent light. On one particular night we fed these 3 spiders and watched them battle over the flies. The best part was when the 2 largest spiders were fighting over a fly, the smallest spider snuck in and stole the fly! Yeay for the underdog! I hope you enjoyed the anecdote! Keep up the great work!
A new fan,
Katie

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