What makes webs on the ground

Grass spiders can move very quickly over the web, especially if dry — then it looks like the spider is walking on air. Grass spiders are beneficial predators, eating a variety of insects in the lawn. They won't usually enter homes or sheds and are not considered dangerous.

If you try to eradicate them, you will probably see an influx of pests in your yard and garden. If you have ryegrass, very rare in our area unless you recently reseeded your lawn with a mix containing rye , the webs could be a disease called pythium. Ryegrass lawns that receive too much nitrogen may be too green and succulent for this time of the year.

The most effective control for this is to reduce the amount of nitrogen that you apply over the course of the year. There is no need to treat for these spiders.

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Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. But which one is it? Luckily, there are easy ways to tell which decorator decided to give your lawn a spooky look. To help, we break down the difference between the webs. Webs caused by grass spiders are easy to identify because the spider will still be there!

Grass spiders rarely leave their webs and like to hide in the funnel shelter part of their sheet-like web.