Re: Spider Man No Way Home Book
Leana Eckes
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Most of our species of Tegenaria were probably introduced into this country during the last few centuries among imported cargoes from the Mediterranean Region. The natural habitat of the spiders includes caves and hollow trees but, of course, they readily adapt to buildings.
In Britain, Tegenaria house spiders are still in the process of expanding their range in the north of England and Scotland. Before long, few locations where there are houses will remain free of them.
House spiders build cobwebs consisting of a silken sheet which funnels into a retreat at the back. These are permanent structures which can attain considerable size (and dustiness!) in an undisturbed cellar, shed or garage.
Young spiders (resembling small versions of the adults) hatch from the egg sac and grow to maturity within a year. Males, when they become adult, are distinguished by the sex organs on the ends of the palps which look rather like a pair of boxing gloves. The males usually die in the autumn soon after mating, but many females survive to the next year, during which they produce a number of egg-sacs.
In this country many millions of people are bothered by the presence of Tegenaria house spiders. While these spiders are most numerous in outbuildings, such as garages or sheds, they move around at night (especially August to October) and enter living rooms through open windows and gaps around doors.
As yet, nobody has invented an effective device to deter spiders. The remedy is to prevent their entry by closing windows and blocking gaps with the use of plaster, draught excluders and insect screens for doors and windows.
As its name suggests, the common house spider is the spider most often seen in homes in the United States. They like to build webs in hidden areas of the home, such as attics, basements, sheds, and barns. Most of the webs are in the corners of rooms and very easy to miss.
The common house spider is small, less than a quarter of an inch (0.6 centimeters) long. Females tend to be a little larger than the males. House spiders are brown and some individuals may have brown or white spotting on the abdomen. The legs of males have an orange tint, while the legs of female common house spiders look yellow. One of the most noticeable characteristics of the common house spider is the dark rings on the legs. Each leg has several darker rings, especially at the joints.
When people find common house spiders, they often destroy the web and kill the spider. However, it's important to remember that spiders eat insects, including flies and mosquitoes, and they could be keeping these out of the homes they're inhabiting.
Common house spiders spin webs that are made from thin silk strands. There are several ways to tell a common house spider's web from other species' webs. For one, common house spiders usually spin one part of the web to be thicker than the rest. The spider sits on this thicker portion of the web. In addition, common house spiders like to add a leaf or two to the web so they can hide.
Common house spiders might be seen on multiple webs close together or a web with more than one spider. If house spiders find a good spot with plenty of food, they do not mind if another spider produces a web nearby. However, if the webs are too close, the spiders might attack each other.
A female common house spider can produce several egg sacs in a year. The best time to spot an egg sac is in the summer. They are very small, papery, brown sacs that hang from the web and can have more than 400 spider eggs inside.
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I first met Zoropsis a couple years ago and although it was a brief introduction, I was left intrigued. My husband and I had just arrived home, later in the evening than our two dogs were accustomed to so they were particularly eager for their bedtime treat. I hurried across the dim kitchen and bent down to open the dog treat drawer. My husband flicked on the light and suddenly I could see, inches from my face, a large tan spider contrasting against the shiny silver of the dishwasher door. The startled spider froze as though I had just caught it sneaking a midnight snack, then it ran for cover between the dishwasher and cabinets. Wolf spider? I wondered. But it was a surprisingly light tan color and looked a bit different than the wolf spiders I was familiar with, and wolf spiders are not often found indoors. I recalled a handful of posts I had seen on an online neighborhood message board, each with photos of a big spider on a bedroom wall or kitchen countertop and variations of the alarmed question, what the heck is this!? I found the posts and scrolled through the comments until I came to one proposing they were a non-native species named Zoropsis spinimana. Now I had a lead!
Following my lead from the message board, I searched for articles and photos of Zoropsis spinimana and compared its characteristics and markings to those of my relocated houseguest. Bingo! My new friend was, in fact, the Mediterranean expat.
Zoropsis can probably only survive cold climates with the shelter and food sources available indoors. However, climate change might be making regions outside its historical range warmer, which could influence its future homemaking plans.
That interaction confirmed that Zoropsis, like many spiders, is generally shy, solitary, and not aggressive toward humans. Understandably, it might bite if threatened and its clasping mouthparts (chelicerae) are able to pierce human skin. Like most spiders, Zoropsis has venom glands used to subdue its prey, but there are no verified significant medical reactions caused by its bite and it is considered harmless to humans.
Zoropsis is a hunting spider so it does not build webs to catch prey or for shelter, and instead uses its silk to protect its eggs. The individuals I observed seemed relatively slow-moving though I learned they can move quickly when attacking prey, which consists of insects and other spiders. Perhaps this means that even if you are not a fan of spiders, leaving Zoropsis and other hunting spiders you find indoors might actually help reduce not only the number of insects in your home, but also its overall spider population.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. It stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. In the film, Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to use magic to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again after this was revealed to the world at the end of Far From Home. When the spell goes wrong because of Parker's actions, the multiverse is broken open and visitors from alternate realities are brought into Parker's universe.
Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered at the Fox Village Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on December 13, 2021, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 17, as part of Phase Four of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $1.9 billion worldwide, surpassing its predecessor as the highest-grossing film released by Sony Pictures. It became the highest-grossing film of 2021, the sixth-highest-grossing film of all time, the highest grossing Spider-Man film, and set several other box office records, including those for films released during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. An extended version of the film, subtitled The More Fun Stuff Version, had a global theatrical release in September 2022. A sequel is in development.
After Quentin Beck frames Peter Parker for his murder and reveals that Peter is Spider-Man,[a] the Department of Damage Control interrogates Peter; his girlfriend, Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson; his best friend, Ned Leeds; and his aunt, May Parker. Lawyer Matt Murdock gets Peter's charges dropped, but the group grapples with negative publicity. After Peter's, MJ's, and Ned's MIT applications are rejected, Peter goes to the New York Sanctum to ask Dr. Stephen Strange for help. Strange starts casting a spell that would make everyone forget Peter is Spider-Man, but it is corrupted when Peter repeatedly requests alterations to let his loved ones retain their memories. Strange contains the corrupted spell.
At Strange's suggestion, Peter tries to convince an MIT administrator to reconsider MJ's and Ned's applications. He is attacked by Otto Octavius, who rips nanotechnology from Peter's Iron Spider suit. This bonds with Octavius's mechanical tentacles and allows Peter to take control of them. As Norman Osborn arrives and attacks, Strange teleports Peter back to the Sanctum and locks Octavius in a cell next to Curt Connors. Strange explains that the corrupted spell summoned people from other universes within the multiverse who know Spider-Man's identity. He orders Peter, MJ, and Ned to find and capture the others; they locate and retrieve Max Dillon and Flint Marko at a military research facility.
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