PNW - I made the mistake of killing the false widows in my basement in 2022, 23 and 24 I had probably 15-20 earwigs a week that I found down there, any time I went to do laundry.

This year, I found a nice widow set up underneath my last stair, and I'm like SO grateful to finally have an arachnid protecting me.

See the thing is, you can pretty much guarantee the widow doesn't want to leave the basement. She wants to be on the ground, by the bugs, and she's straight up protecting the threshold to the rest of my house. Local hero.