Oh hell no! Now I’m never going to get back to sleep. I want my Mommy!
At least it’s not a new, more aggressive and venomous variety of funnelweb.
I see they are tiny, but I still have no desire to push up the attic door to open it, only to have 40K of those ‘adorable’ spiders rain down onto my head face and shoulders.
Here’s a great video of the spider with some really nice Didgeridoo music. Enjoy. (3 min long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yYC5r8xMI
nice video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlcqlXJFTxE
It's still a spider to me, squish.
One day I’m in one of the big Jewish cemeteries in NY. I’m sitting on an Ivy covered grave cutting an inscription. I shutdown the blast tank and take off my hood to check the depth...and there are THOUSAND of very tiny extremely fast moving black spiders EVVVEEERRRRYYYYWHERE. The Ivy apparently was their cover. Their tiny size DID NOT MAKE THEM CUTE! I was itchy for the rest of the week.
“Even people who hate spiders, extreme arachnophobes love these spiders. They can’t help it.”
Not to me. Spiders aren’t cute, even if they’re tie-dyed.
Lol...very interesting. We have a love hate relationship with spiders in the desert. Tarantulas are fascinating and then again you have black widows and other nasties. One of my buddies stuck his hand in a lid over a pool skimmer and was within 2 inches of BW on the underside and didn’t know it until someone nearby pointed it out. We’ve finally seen a wild tarantula and even though it was wild a fellow nearby picked it right up and placed it gently in a wooded grove. Good man there, just glad the tarantula thought the same... :)
Well, those little guys are of the size where I get them to crawl on my hand so I can take them outside.
Any spider larger than about 1/4” gets the cup and paper treatment. Unless it’s a black widow, then it gets the Raid treatment.
I wonder why the little spiders have so much fur? The strands look like they are too far apart to insulate... but that’s Australia, where it is warm—maybe the fur acts to shield, not insulate?
In the spider world, men do the pole dancing.
Spiders are not cute. Not even these.
Spider locomotion is fascinating though.
The only muscle a spider uses for walking and moving about is its heart. The legs and all moveable appendages move by hydraulics. Tendons pull the legs in and hydraulics (inflating bladders) extend the legs. Kill a spider and all the legs contract because they lose hydraulic pressure.
said the spider to the fly....... I’m keeping an eye on you
How cool is that? Dancing multicolored spiders! Thanks for posting it - I’m terrorizing Facebook at this moment... :-)
They’re cheerful looking little things. If they don’t or can’t bite, I’d leave them in peace. If they do, sorry, I’ll be compelled to send them to wherever spiders go after this life.