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.
Interesting Spider Facts: 1  Australia has over 2,400 species of spider. Less than 50 of them are harmful to humans. 2  Spiders were among the first animals to live on land, an estimated 400 million years ago. 3  Spiders have their head and thorax combined, jaws designed for piercing or tearing prey and eight legs.