Summer started

I can tell that summer had finally started. There are quite a few signs. The power bills are down to ~50$ from ~200$. UV index is at 11 on the 1 to 11 scale. Bottle brush trees in our backyard (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/14715/) produce more flowers than in winter, so now sparrows are feeding on them, not only fan tails (http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/fantail2.html).

And finally I've caught a second white tail spider in our home, this time it was hidden in dirty clothes bin.
I've carefully moved it to the backyard.
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We've plenty of big spiders and some praying mantises in the home and around hunting for mosquitoes and other pests. ( http://izard.livejournal.com/17219.html#cutid1 )
But white tail spider is a bit different. http://www.dailypost.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3668083&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=