You can get an idea of the size of these little cuties from the photos. The grouting between the laundry tiles is about 3 mm across. In the second picture, those ripples are brush strokes on the ceiling. (I'm not getting those painters back.) In a few moults, they'll be as big as my hand. (The spiders, that is, not the painters. Although that might explain the rubbish job they did on the ceiling.)
It's difficult to imagine that these growing spiders can find enough to eat in my spotless house. Oh, who am I kidding? There are plenty of creepy crawlies in the laundry. The real problem for them will be avoiding the daddy-long-legs (Pholcidae), those spindly killers lurking in the corners, waiting for hapless young arachnids to wander close by. It's a spider eat spider world.
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Happy New Year! I hope those spiders move out before they grow up. Yikes!
"The real problem for them will be avoiding the daddy-long-legs (Pholcidae), those spindly killers lurking in the corners, waiting for hapless young arachnids to wander close by."
That's if they don't eat each other first.
I just did a thorough spider count of my corners; from twenty-odd a few weeks ago, they're down to one, plus 3 new babies. There's nothing around to eat them, except the rest of their hatching mates.
Cute? Surely you jest?
The cutest huntsman I've seen was the one pulverised by my broom.
I've just had a scout around the laundry and kitchen and there's not a huntsman to be seen. I think they have practiced a spot of cannibalism and then fallen prey to something else.
And now the daddy-long-legs have disappeared so I'm concerned there might be some super-spider lurking in the corners ...
Or the daddy-long-legs are sleeping it off after gorging on fat cannibalistic huntsmen.
If not; watch your step; you might be on the menu when the sequence gets to the super-super-super-spider.
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Hope you don't find the missing spider in your laundry...
WW, I did find one large daddy-long-legs in the shower this morning. Perhaps it was waiting ... (I've been bitten by a huntsman spider while I was in the shower. A long and slightly daft story that I'll save for a slow news week.)
Mel, I always inspect the washing very carefully for things like spiders. I once got stung by a scorpion that was sitting on a bath towel that someone had left for too long in a laundry basket. It's made me cautious :)
I've a run of bad luck with arachnids.
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