I think it’s all about the light conditions, humidity, and connecting spaces.
Where I am, If there’s consistent light, even if it’s pretty dim, there seem to be a couple of species of little jumpers that completely has their way with everything else, I don’t think anything else gets much past the ‘dot with legs’ stage unless something big wanders in from somewhere else, except the occasional corner weaver.
The wolf spiders here seem to be on more of an internal clock and are often that ‘something big from somewhere else’ from dusk to dawn outside, I think we notice them a lot because that’s when we’re out and about.
Meanwhile, where it’s usually dark and damp you’ve got the house centipedes, and they can be that ‘something big from outside’ too, they’re not afraid of light but they’re pretty useless at catching the little jumpers and seem to be at a disadvantage against the wolf spiders, who seem to railroad them from the side if they happen to meet.
The cellar spiders are . . . weird. It seems like they tend to replace the centipede niche in some places I’ve been, but are more active in a smaller zone during the day. . . but I’ve seen them owning a room when it’s well lit too. They make a messy web but will wander about and take out nearby weavers and such as well. They’re surprisingly brainy critters.
Then you have the male weavers, who really have no business being out in that mess. They’re like everything else’s potato chips. There must be a bunch of 'em to make up for it, because they seem to be the token non-insect-victim this time of year. There seem to be a lot that look like gangly wolf spiders but move like . . . like food, apparently.
