Spiders freak me out, and it seems like more spiders are out now than usual. But according to experts, that's not really the case. What spiders are doing is coming out of hiding and looking around for, companionship. loading...

OK, they are spiders. They want to mate.

According to axios.com,

‘ Spiders don't intentionally move between indoors and outdoors — and if they try, only about 5% make it, Rod Crawford, arachnid curator at the Burke Museum, tells Axios.

Our region's most visible spider, the giant house spider or Eratigena atrica, is on the move as sexual maturity compels the males to abandon the crawl spaces and basements they favor to wander aimlessly in search of a female's web.’

So, in some ways this is not that different from humans.

Spiders have no intent to atta

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