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thethingything · 4 months

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shoutout to the especially large cellar spider that was in the bathroom the other day that looked very dead but then turned out not to be, disappeared from the location it had been all day, was nowhere to be seen despite us checking the whole room, briefly showed up again in a place we'd literally just checked, then disappeared when we looked away and looked back again and hasn't been seen since. I hope it's out there living its best life wherever the fuck it is now

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #spiders #I'm so used to these guys because we see them so much around the house and I think there's one living under our desk #but like they seem to either stay in the same place for days on end #or they appear out of nowhere and then disappear just as quickly and you're just kind of aware they're somewhere nearby #also since I now try to photograph every spider we see and put it on iNat I've been learning just how many species there are in the house #and then I keep googling them and learning about their behaviours and it's really interesting #I'm more aware than ever before of just how many spiders there are in the house but we're also more comfortable with them #and get kind of excited when we see a species we don't recognise but it's also cool when we do recognise them #but like the cellar spiders hunt and eat other spiders but they do build a web to sit on too and will share webs with each other #while some other spiders like ground spiders actively hunt and don't build webs so we expect to see them running around sometimes #and then there are species I haven't managed to get IDs for that build different shaped webs #and there are the orbweavers in the garden and we recently saw hundreds of baby orbweavers #and like orbweavers are called that because they build webs that have like a circle/spiral pattern to them #and one of these absolutely miniscule baby ones had build the tiniest little web but it had that pattern and it was sat in the middle #and it's like... oh it's weaved the tiniest orb... little baby spider sitting right in the middle of the tiniest web #like the web was exactly like the ones the adults build but just scaled down and it was so fascinating and kind of adorable

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