So the other day while getting ready for bed I came across a nicely sized black spider scurrying along my carpet trying to ineptly escape my gaze. So instead of my usual capturing of the spider in a cup and hurling it off my balcony I devised a crafty composting solution.

I had thought many times about having a spider in my compost bin to suck up all the fruit flies that cloud my vision every time I open my worm bin. So I decided to do just that! I plopped him right inside the compost bin and shut the lid hoping he wouldn’t try to leave the enclosed container.

He didn’t. In fact 2 days later when i went to check on it he had a decent sized web setup with more flies than he could dream of! Certainly a win win situation. Hopefully I don’t ruin the web too much when I do my next aerating stir. Who would’ve thought it’d be that easy?

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