"Old fat spider can’t see me! Attercop! Attercop!"

The post title is from The Hobbit. The spiders may not have been able to see Bilbo, but I'm not invisible.

I just finished the first application of Miss Muffet's Revenge this year, a very effective spider killer/repellent that lasts three or four months. I usually spray every surface a spider might cross getting onto my balcony.

I readily admit that spiders are generally beneficial, consuming insects and themselves providing food for birds. But I prefer they don't occupy the same living space I do.