Insecticides, Spiders and Birds  By Kay Charter –  Ask a room
filled with people who love birds what the following Michigan
species have in common: chickadees, titmice, all wrens, most
warblers, all flycatchers (including phoebes), all thrushes
(including robins and bluebirds), catbirds, thrashers, all
members of the blackbird family (including bobolinks,
meadowlarks and orioles), tanagers, grosbeaks, buntings, many
sparrows, some swallows and Ruby-throated hummingbird. Chances
are no one will answer that they all eat spiders.  Prothonotary
Warbler -  by Doug Tallamy  Prothonotary Warbler – by Doug
Tallamy  Ask those same folks what is the most common phobia in
the world and they are likely to say that snakes are the most
widely feared creatures. The reality is that fear of spiders is
the most common universal human phobia, but the fact is that in
the United Snakes less than two people die of spider bites on
average every year while about six succumb to snakebite. We are
six times more likely to be killed by