#Tegenaria

[fujitsubugs]

Tegenaria sp. (i think) by my front door

[artastic-friend]

Thought I’d share the little man

We all know and love him.

Just look at his little spinnerets 😭💖

[tjerra14]

PSA for the neverending influx of spiders: if you want to avoid premature eviction when sharing a flat with me, not dropping from the ceiling hanging suspended at head-height while deciding how to proceed from there twice on a single evening would be a good place to start

[unhingedlesbear]

Wouuu my scary spider waaaa my spooky creepy spider aaa!!

[the0garden0of0eyes]

After 6 moths of spider info dumping on my boyfriend he went from "why the fuck do you want to look for spiders at the attic" to "Take the jar, we're going to look for big spiders at the attic"

[thecryptandtheincubus]

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LAPIDARIUM : Cornaline, Charoite

CURIOSITAS : Tégénaire (Tegenaria Domestica)

LIEU DE TROUVAILLE : sous mon toit

[mindblowingscience]

These species join a large number of invertebrates recently found in Israeli caves that are new to science.

The study was recently published in the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution journal, and has extensive scientific implications for uncovering the evolution of speciation in caves and the historical, geographic and climatic processes that occurred in Israel.

Doctoral student Shlomi Aharon led the study under the guidance of Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev, from the National Natural History Collections at Hebrew University and Professor Dror Hawlena from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. The unique conditions in cave habitats, as well as the isolation from other habitats, lead to a process of convergent evolution, in which we observe the development of exceptional adaptations to life in the dark, such as blindness, loss of pigments and enlargement of sensory organs.

"In many cases, these adaptations will lead to the creation of new species, whose distribution is geographically limited in areas with unique ecological conditions, such as a single cave or a system of connected caves," explains Shlomi Aharon.

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[onenicebugperday]

@patrickbatemanspussy submitted: hello! looking for ID on this spider friend. they were found last week in my basement in [removed] (pls remove location). thanks in advance!!!

Hi :) She is very fuzzy and I love her. She's definitely a funnel weaver, probably a barn funnel weaver, Tegenaria domestica :)

[snapeaddict]

Snapetober Day 20 - Spider

There was a feeble light under the door, then a moving shadow obstructed it for a second or two. Mum was going down the stairs; Da was home.

Instinctively, he pulled his pillow over his head. He held on to it like a lifebelt and turned over in his bed, facing the window. 

The moon was almost full tonight. It cast a pale but luminous light into the narrow room, which he found comforting; he heard a door slam; the sound of a struggle.

There were no voices, no screams, nothing. Mum had not said a word. She had merely stood on the threshold and Da had pushed her, like he often did.

He did not understand why she kept going back. Sometimes she pushed Da, too. Sometimes Da was nice for weeks and all was well.

More struggle - more muffled protest. Then muffled moans.

He looked at the window obstinately. There was a big house spider who lived there, in a hole just to its right: she was out tonight. 

A Tegenaria domestica, mum had taught him.

There was the sound of broken glass, and a whimper. He watched as the spider slowly descended from the hole. A chair was knocked over. The spider was just in front of the moon; she looked as if she lived there, on a planet just her size. 

Some cursing - a scream, though muffled too.

He started humming.

The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,

and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

-

It was hot, boiling hot in fact, by far the worst day this August. But he could not go outside, he was punished: he was not supposed to repair his bedframe, Dad had said. 

Dad had not cared about the fact the broken wood could not be fixed, and he had not bothered to look at Mum who stood in the corner, watching them yet again with a mournful expression.

He had not meant to fix it. He would not have dared to - not after Dad had broken it so badly. But he had wished it would be, and the next morning it just was. 

The spider was pleased, too. She used it to get back onto the wall and then, to her hole. He left a bottle cap filled with water in the corner for her.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,

and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

-

He showed the spider to Lily one day, when his parents were out. They nudged her in her hole and it was not very nice, but he wanted to impress his new friend.

She was not scared of spiders - he was very fond of her.

He apologized to the spider that night, though. He should not have bothered her.

But he liked it when Lily smiled...

Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,

and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

-

He was fairly certain his father would snap his wand into pieces if he got his hands on it. He no longer had the option to store his stuff at Lily's, and he felt terribly vulnerable, with his books and cauldron and robes in that tiny room of his. He hid his wand under a loose plank of parquet flooring. 

His father didn't find it. He got mad. He reeked of cheap liquor; it was a bad combination.

He bashed his head against the wall. For a moment he could not see, or hear properly. But the tumult startled the spider and she fell out of her hole, right into his hair and then on the floor. His father took a step forward to slap him hard; the spider fled to the other side of the room, where his books and cauldron were. His father kicked into the heap savagely. He crushed the spider without even noticing. 

The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

-

He killed flies with his wand, staring mindlessly at the bloody spots they left on the ceiling. It didn't feel particularly nice. But he had to do the spider's job, now.

[dreamlingbingo]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling, Original were-spider character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Caves, Witch Curses, Family Curses, giant were-spider, I don't know if that's a deal breaker for anyone but there is a huge fuckoff spider in this story, You Have Been Warned, Love Confessions, Humor, this is really quite silly Summary:

Dream's family has passed down the legend of their family curse, how all that love them are doomed to ruin. Hob, unwilling to give up the chance to love his best friend, has helped him track down the supposed source of this curse.

 (title is a play on the arthropod species name Tegenaria parietina)

  Dreamling Bingo square A5 - Apologies

[myheadisalabyrinth]

Also found this Charcoal spider(Tegenaria ferruginea) on our doorstep, that died most likely from starvation or old age. Don't worry tho I gave it a proper burial in my flowerpot, because every critter deserves peace after death, even the ones that people don't like.

[artastic-friend]

So sorry for all the spider posts but I just find new adorable little guys everywhere 😭💖💖💕💕

This, I believe is a male Tegenaria domestica!

He is so precious!

I found him in the bathroom of my school’s science building and got so distracted by him that I haven’t payed attention to barely a single thing of my chemistry lecture 😭😭

I love himb

Feel free to let me know if you think I classified him wrong!

[tjerra14]

Tfw you’re not particularly fond of spiders but have made an uneasy peace with them that consists of “if you don’t meet some weird unwritten arbitrary criteria that result in temporary tolerance, you go straight back outside” and every goddamn spider in the vicinity seems to have decided to try their luck and come by for a visit

[sleepy-helion]

Some time ago Jakei made a little art contest in which you have to cross Xtale/Underverse with your own Ocs. This was my entry! I wrote a little description for it for context:

"One carefree day, when I was selling my special Tegenaria Cakes for the first time, someone rather odd appeared. A stray-looking girl with tentacles and messy black hair, whose name is apparently Onyx, just appeared in our world and started buying all of my cupcakes! I made quite a profit off of her, she cluelessly bought every single cupcake for double the price, ahuhuhu~"

"Anyways, Frisk looked really upset when she started eating every single cupcake I had to offer on the spot. She had quite an appetite for having such a stature. Hehe, if Frisky had looked just a little closer he would have known that I got his back~"

[sukimas]

wait this is a Tegenaria species. where's your funnel dude. cmon

[jupiterswasphouse]

Hi, it seems to be mainly a wasp blog but I was wondering if it would be ok for you to tell me non-scary facts about tegenerias (domestic spiders in Europe) ? For example why would they have such long legs ?

I'm no professional but I do know a bit about more than just wasps! Although admittedly, funnel weavers (the family to which the genus Tegenaria belongs) aren't something I've looked into much before,,,

I can't say for certain why any spider's legs are so long but I can tell you that some evidence implies that spiders with longer legs may be faster while suspended but slower on the ground! I'm not sure if this says anything about funnel weavers specifically however, given they don't seem to spend a long time suspended as far as I know-

With regards to funnel weavers though, while most spider webs are sticky, funnel weaver webs tend not to be sticky at all! This includes Tegenaria webs!

Furthermore on Tegenaria species, they only bite in self defense and their bites are not dangerous to humans, being painless (According to Source 1)

Tegenaria can also live for several months without food (see Source 1) and, while their lives are shorter in the wild, spiders of the species Tegenaria domestica have supposedly lived up to seven years in captivity! (According to Source 2)

If anyone has anything more to add, feel free! :]