Winter squash is an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, alpha-carotene and beta-carotene. It is also a very good source of thiamin, vitamin B6, potassium, magnesium, and manganese, and a good source of iron.
Spiders are, for the most part, such generalist feeders that they kill many useful insects as well as many pest species, however because pest species are by their nature more numerous than beneficial species they are still effective. They are of great value to the environment.
Mimicry. Spiders will also try to protect themselves from their prey by trying to act like, or copy the appearance or shape of another animal or non-living object. This is called mimicry when we see these copycats in action in nature. Let's look at the Wasp-mimicking Spider of Australia, the Sunpunna picta.