2016 January 6

   Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake Road:   After ten years our dishwasher had given up the ghost. Today we installed a new one. We found that this spider had made a home behind the dishwasher.   Remarkably, this appeared to be the only one who ever had.

  Thanks to Robb Bennett for identifying it for us as Steatoda grossa, one of the household spiders known as “false black widows”.  Sometime also called the Cupboard Spider, though maybe now we should call it the Dishwasher Spider!   Jeremy Tatum