It's spider season! That's very normal in September/October. At least in the Netherlands but I imagine it's similar in the UK.

I didn't know about Foxes. I very rarely see them.

Those damned fox spiders!

Not in the UK and not foxes or spiders, but I have seen more packs of coyotes living in a city than I ever did when I lived in a small, semi-rural farm-country town. Had a small pack roaming around my apartment complex the other night. 😳

The garden spiders, orb weavers I think? do seem more prolific this year! I manage to get wrapped in at least one web every morning!

And the foxes have been digging up my veg beds all summer :( Looks like they tried playing ball with my best pumpkin too!

These fucking spiders weave webs right across the path! Every time I put the bins out I get a mouth full of their webs! Someone ought to start a change.org petition to stop them doing this.

Yeah...it's autumn.

Presumably this isn't your first autumn.

There are lots of spiders because it's spider season. There are always loads of spiders in September and October.

And you're noticing all the foxes because this is their mating season, and they make a horrendous amount of noise when they're mating.

You'll be panicking about all the leaves on the trees dying and falling off, next.

All the spiders who normally prefer to be hidden in your walls and floors and ceilings are now searching for each other to make the next generation.

I'm just glad not to have had another run-in with giant house spiders. The last one was so big I could feel it crunching from the other end of the broom.

Foxy spiders... Hmmm...

... wouldn't an increase in both (a steady increase, not just a one-season bump) be a positive signal indicating environment's health/biodiversity?

Sure, both have other externalities (foxes are smart & are getting integrated in human ecosystems, spider population can be upheld by a single species, like an unbalanced amount of mosquitoes + warming climates increase the survivability of both), but it's better to have more of them, right?

I bet you those spiders are coming here illegally on small web.

I'm dangerously close to 40 and have never seen a fox.

Yeah those orange orb spider cunts are everywhere yuk 🤢 I swear those bastards are actually some kind of tiny spybot because they sound like metal if you flick them off their web.