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Tell us: have you learned to love the ‘pest’ you hated?

<span>Photograph: Ilka & Franz/Getty Images</span>
Photograph: Ilka & Franz/Getty Images

It’s spider season and, as autumn descends, the bugs are among us once again. But with many of us becoming more conscious of the need to preserve nature’s ecosystems, we want to know how you learned to love the pests you once hated.

Perhaps you only ever thought of wasps as a nuisance, until you discovered that they provide a natural form of pest control against aphids, flies, caterpillars and other vegetable patch threats? Or maybe a particularly intricate and beautiful spider’s web prompted you to view the eight-legged creatures in a new light? Let us know below.

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