Maybe We Should Leave The Spiders Alone

The giver of fertility was long revered. A spider god/dess, spiders were cherished for centuries but slowly lost favor with people. They began finding them horrific and hideous, and they were killed for existing. Spiders are good at keeping other pests at bay and having a lot of babies at once. For this reason, spiders represented the fertility that prevents droughts. Droughts also bring other crazy natural events such as wildfires and subsequent flooding when water is introduced. These are the pests spiders fought off before humans started killing them. Their babies were like raindrops in a drizzle, enough to accomplish the goal, but not so much that it is overdone. The droughts persist until humans find respect for these helpful creatures once more. In the meantime, the weather will worsen as the spiders are forcibly eradicated.