Our wispy spider babies!

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They've had babies!

Mine too. Lots of teeny cellar spiders to eat the big hairy bastards.

You may want to put a picture warning on the title!

They're adorable. What are their names? 😄

Pholcidae Amazing. We had a brood too up in the corner. It was a perfect circle of about 60 tiny spiderlings, no more than 3 or 4 millimetres. They grew so quickly and now they have migrated out around different corners of the house. A bit bigger now. At night they come out and track the scent the larger spiders have left on their feet. Judging by the size of those this year, they might need to gang up into teams when looking for a meal. The house spider I saw two weeks back was the largest ever.

Cool! We had a hatching about a week ago. More for the defence force! Although they seem to get so many woodlice I’m not sure they’ll have the appetite for the wretched giant monsters.

Zeal glad it's not just us that are having gigantaspiders this year.

Awwwwwwwwwww. Congratulations mummy and daddy spider.
I think we should swap usernames.

Dying for some of these as I've seen three big fuck off dead ones in a week.

I think there is a massive female like in arachnophobia mating and just killing males somewhere in my house

Another one

Awe that's cute. Do they really eat the hairy ones?

Please let that be true!!!!

Nann that's not a cute one!

I keep all my spindly ones around, to catch any flies that still come in! Get rid of the big bastards though.
Not that my partner would let me leave them anyway 😂😂 he's terrified!

Yup.

The little cellar spiders look like the skinny weaklings, but they are expert hunters of big, hairy spiders.

They are very light and their legs spread their weight across a wide area. I've seen one sneak up on its prey in the middle of its web.

I wish I had not clicked on that photo @nannannanana

Omg!!!. I'm never getting rid of them again in that case !!!

Is it true?!!!

I hate spiders with a passion and we have a few of the big bastards lurking around but lots of the wispy ones! I don't mind them so much they just hang around the kitchen and under cupboards and they don't rear up at me like the big ones!

Ah that's good. I dont seem to have as many wispy ones this year. I think I might have been to efficient at hoovering up the webs in the summer.

I have only seen my first big fat hairy spider tonight so hopefully they are still alive and feasting away.

Yep, not a spider fan here. I really hate am terrified of massive scuttley bastards and for this reason I don't mind the Steves (we always call the spindly ones Steve, as in DH might shout "I've found a Steve!") hanging about.

I found a Steve on the carpet the other day and was able to get it into a glass without freaking out and take it outside but asked DD if she wanted to say hello and then goodbye first as I'm really trying very hard not to pass my fear on as it's such a crap fear to have. She said he waved bye bye to her

Between Steve and our 2 cats fingers crossed we're a massive bastard free zone this year! Congrats on your baby Steves!

I have to say I'm getting a little twitchy about the big bastards now.

I never knew the spindly ones caught the big hairy shitbags for us. Shame they weren't around the other night when we had such a huge fat one that when we put our designated spider glass over it (same glass, lives in the cat food cupboard, constantly makes me worry that one day it will be left out on the side and I'll use it ), it's legs got squashed.
THEN 3 minutes later the cat looked up to see what was going on.

I’ve witnessed a spindly one killing a big fat hairy one. It’s amazing

Big fat hairy one wanders into spindly web and gets stuck. (Good enough reason for me to avoid housework…)

Big fat spindly one quickly moves in and wraps hairy one on more web, then just appeared to wait.

Couple of days later, only shell of big one left.

I’ve left the spindly ones …. And their babies…. alone since.

I might calling them Steves

My new boyfriend doesn’t want me to have a bath.

He’s too thick to make use of the bog roll spider ladders I have placed nearby. 🙄

But the big house spiders are endangered, I remove Steve's to save the Aragogs.

At work we are having a cobweb off.

One of my pholcidae is convinced he needs to live in/on the bath. Usually they stay in the corner of the room but this one is on the taps every day. I move him every night but he scuttles back. He's definitely not a Steve. He's stubborn and determined. I think he's more a Dave.

Have I entered a parallel universe? Spider babies are emphatically not cute!

You are all insane.