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Warm Spring Drives Increase in Large House Spiders Across UK
Warm spring conditions boosted insect prey, causing a rise in larger and more widespread house spider sightings across the UK, with southern species moving north, experts say.
- David Gee, a zoology lecturer at the University of Derby, warned that large house spiders matured earlier this year and are now audible when moving across floors at night.
- Warm spring conditions spurred the early maturation by boosting insect populations, providing spiders with more food and higher survival rates during the growing season.
- Male spiders stop building webs to become "roving individual" seekers hunting for mates, forcing them into homes where they "force each other out of an area," creating a "turf war," Gee explained.
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