There are more than a 1000 species in 52 families of spiders in Texas.

Spiders are my favorite insects. And there sure are a lot of pretty ones.

So funny -- I recently watched an episode of "House Hunters" that showed a spider and web just like in Cheryl's original post, outside the window of the house the people were looking at; let's just say these house hunters were NOT nature lovers

Just found this thread Cheryl, cool webs, I like spiders as long as they are not in the house .

I enjoy little 'jumpy spiders' inside the house; they are fun to watch.
In fact, there is one right now...watching me...over on the right just out of view of the screen....look at his googly eyes. So cute.

Yeah, I don't mind those so much, they are interesting.

I love spiders even in my house. I shoo them to the outdoors. But darnit they are messy, especially the little brown spiders. They leave their spidery poo all over the place that has to be scrubbed off! Makes you wonder what those little guys eat for dinner?

That's something I've never noticed, spider doo. Flies, on the other hand. I was cleaning the walls the other day and saw a cellar spider carrying an egg sac around. She was wandering about, but I just let her be. She finally found a place in the walls somewhere.