[RKDinOKC]

At my other house we had this big China Berry Tree in our back yard. It got infested with Box Elder bugs. They have black wings, gray bodies and a red spot on their butt. All the pest control people told me they were so prolific there were impossible to get rid of. There were so many they would turn the back of my house black sunning themselves. It was unsettling because they would all run and hide when anyone went out into the back yard. In the spring I went out and caught 3 Tarantulas that were crossing the road and released them under the shed next to the tree. In a month all the box elder bugs were gone! I was pretty proud of myself.

Three years later the neighbor two doors down told me he found a huge tarantula walking across his back yard and killed it. I just don't know what it is with people and killng spiders. They eat insects!

I guess there was at least one spider left because the box elder bugs didn't come back.