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.
Cursorial spiders that wander in vegetation with EFNs are likely to encounter nectar, which they have the potential to detect with gustatory hairs on their tarsi (Barth 2002). Plant nectar increases survival, molting, and foraging in two foliage wandering spiders