I vacuumed up most of the last litter but I'm not sure what to do about this one. There are about 25 tiny baby spiders and one huge momma spider. The last litter only consisted of approx. 12 babies.

Do female spiders need a male spider to fertilize them? Because, if so, I want to know where the daddy spider is! I could barely fall asleep last night.

And how long do spiders live, anyway?! This spider has lived in the windowsill for at least the past year! I thought they only lived a few months so I didn't do anything about it. If I'd known this particular type of spider lived for years and breeded over and over again, I would have removed and/or killed it a long time ago!

I was trying to be nice to the spider but this is getting out of control.

Tonight, I will drag out the vacuum cleaner. The babies will die. The momma will die, too, if she doesn't scurry away in time. And then I will plug the hole in the windowsill to the outside world with a cotton ball plug.

She is not welcome in our home anymore.