The real reason not to worry is that spiders tend to find other spiders delicious. The really small ones have particularly strong cannibalistic tendencies.
The shadows are making it harder to see, but each of those spiders has made space between itself and it's siblings for a reason. There are already visibly less than you would expect at hatch time, give it a week or so and there will just be a few left
They can make that many but I’m pretty sure like 95% or more of them do not make it past childhood. That still leaves 5% of 2000 in this case. Still not great, but less awful at least?
Doing some math, 5% survival of 500 is 25 offspring that survive to adulthood per season. So for each season, supposing that each spider lives for 3 seasons and has offspring in each, we can expect the following pattern:
Season 0: 1 (Boris)
Season 1: 26
Season 2: 676
Thereafter, we can define the population of season N as P(N) = (P(N-1)-P(N-3)) × 26
I put that in excel, and it says there should be 4 × 1039 spiders by the 30th season. Models can only do so much, I guess.
Well Huntsman grow to have a 12 inch leg span and turn off the lights and you can actually hear them moving... Their footsteps are audible to the human ear.
I have definitely encountered mice that are smaller and more silent
not just that, but I think (from dealing with tarantulas, mostly; not sure if it applies to all kinds of spiders) that at some point after they mature, they stop eating and molting and dedicate the rest of their life to looking for a mate/mating
Like octopi. After they mate and lay their eggs they stop eating so that they die and the child can eat their body when they're born. It's part of the reason they live such short lives.
It certainly helps that even if they bite, they’re nearly completely harmless. No venom, not even truly awful fangs. So even if you did somehow scare one, there’s a 99% chance of them just bolting and that 1% is just a harmless bite.
Minor nitpick: they do have venom, it's just not medically significant to people, and are only about as mild as a bee sting (not even a wasp, them bitches hurt). You're 100% on everything else though, these are bros and they pay rent, and they'd much rather get away than waste venom on something that they can't eat.
There’s a running joke in Australia that Huntsman are the largest cause of casualties among all spiders because they like to hide in sun visors and jump scare drivers
This specific breed of spider is incredibly creepy but actually awesome. They hunt cockroaches and other pests. They don’t like bothering with people. They’re great roommates. I had a couple in Florida that really freaked me out but they’re great
I had a daddy long legs spider called Boris! We had the same agreement, about 2 months ago she (I learned it was a female after Boris got children once) crawled down to die in a corner. Had her for 3 years, may you RIP Boris
I worked at a U-Haul backed up to a huge canal like 15 years ago. The ceiling in our shop was one giant web from these guys. It was easily a 30' x 60' web with THOUSANDS of spiders, likely tens of thousands. We fucking loved them because at work there were never mosquitos... Then the Area Manager came, saw the ceiling and said to get rid of it. The mosquitos were absolutely insane after that.
We never saw the spiders come down or into the building itself. They stayed on the ceiling inside the shop. I was there for years watching the web and colony grow.
Leave them alone and let them build a colony and you will never have a nusiance flying around again.
Mosquitoes entire lifespan requires water. They lay their eggs in water, which slowly hatch on the waters surface. Then the larvae will grow up on the surface of the water til they mature and fly away to give some poor sap dengue fever. Learned that super young when I brought home a bucket of stagnant water with what I thought were little tadpoles. My parents let me know it was actually mosquito larvae.
They had mosquitos like crazy. There was always stagnant water nearby which was a perfect breeding area for them. That last few months I worked there were absolutely miserable.
Thats actually crazy. I wonder if thats why we never saw other bugs. We had wolf spiders and the odd black widow in the area but never at the facility.
I detest wolf spiders. They don't even build webs. They burrow. Their eyes reflect light like cats with flashlights. And they eat their young. AND they always travel in packs of 3. They aren't particularly harmful but they are fast and can get huge and they do nothing to tame my spider fear lol.
Had one at the corner of my indoor balcony door. Decided to keep it to see if it would catch anything. One day I noticed a bunch of dirt underneath its web and wondered how dirt got there. Looked closer to vacuum it up and it was a dozen gnat bodies. It would catch the gnats, eat it, then discard it out of the web. Probably the most effective spider species I’ve ever seen.
I can vouch when I moved to my new room there use to be a decent amount of mosquitos but then I noticed a spider in my bathroom and I let him just chill and after a few weeks anything that was flying was grounded
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Idk, I've vacuumed up many spiders before and I don't think it's ever killed any of them. I'm an arachnophobe so sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. But I don't do it anymore because it just means you have a little lovecraftian beastie living in your vacuum.
I normally just leave spiders be, free pest control! And spiders are really cool, I like watching them. One time I saw a spider climbing up a piece of silk and the silk was near invisible so it looked like it was climbing on air which was super cool to see. My mom is scared of spiders but she respects them and just lets them do their thing. She’s okay with spiders in the house, she just doesn’t want them on her.
The canister on my vacuum is clear. I’ve never seen one not survive the initial vacuuming. What kills them is getting hit by other stuff that gets vacuumed after them
I don’t think this will work. I moved this species of spider from my garage to my room (which is on the basement floor) because I had an ant problem. I hoped she would help with the ants but she kept moving back to the same spot in the garage :(
Cellar spiders are friends! The babies will disperse naturally and will do wonders for small pest control in your house while keeping out of your way :)
Those long legs are absolutely vicious to pretty much every other spider. It can wrap up everything while its body stays safely away, and the legs are too thin and spindly for them to get a good grip and bite.
They are very polite spiders! They typically stick to a corner of some window and just chill there. The dominant spider (yellow sac spider?) in my house, meanwhile, likes to travel around on the walls and sometimes drop down from the ceiling, specifically onto a human or hanging in the air right in front of the staircase at face-level.
We call them cellar spiders. We call Harvestmen daddy long legs (which are not spiders but another type of arachnid, spiders have two body segments while harvestmen have one and they have only two eyes)
Additionally, harvestmen do not spin webs while cellar spiders spin messy webs with no pattern. Cellar spiders will eat live prey while harvestmen feed on dead insects!
Used to have a few cellar spiders in the bathroom at work. They would battle all the time, sometimes one would be missing a limb or two. You'd have to be careful walking in and out because when they would fight, the webs would shake and they'd hang down low enough to get caught in your hair.
Same. Here's a Harvestmen "spider", what we call daddy long legs in Missouri. Its followed by a photo of what we call Cellar Spiders. Both harmless. Cellar Spiders are actually helpful little predators to have around.
Missourian here too. Daddy long legs and walking sticks fascinated me as a child. Now I hardly see either of them. I do see the cellars quite often still.
Wow I have always called them daddy longlegs I didn’t even know that they had a different name or that it was harvestman. When this british fellow called the spiders in the picture daddy longlegs I was like wtf those look nothing like daddy longlegs, and then I looked up harvestmen from ur comment and gasped that it was a daddy longlegs when i saw the photos
I’m from Arizona and we always called these daddy long legs. Then I moved to SC and people call harvestmen daddy long legs or great grandaddy long legs.
Sc also calls roaches “palmetto bugs” it throws me off. 😂😅
Around Indiana that’s just a house spider. Daddy long legs are the little balls of anger with 6 legs and no teeth.
I guess they do have 8 legs, but only 1 body segment
Yes, thank you!! People just call anything a daddy long legs nowadays, part of the terror of one is them flying at you when you open the front door at night...
Thats house spider daddy long legs look like a crab one section with a bunch of legs
Cellar spiders are harmless, fragile spiders with very long, thin legs, commonly found in basements, cellars, and corners of homes, also known as daddy longlegs spiders. They build irregular, messy webs to catch small insects, and while they can bite, their venom is weak and not dangerous to humans, with the myth of them being deadly being false. Control involves removing webs, reducing humidity, and sealing entry points, as they thrive in moist environments.
Oh I looked it up those are also called daddy long legs
If they're not doing anything for you, they starve. If they don't starve, something else would be taking over if you took out the spiders. Where possible, keeping them alive is the obvious choice.
People just living out Junji Ito lives, going about their day as a spider nest builds above their head each night, not a bother, looking up seeing it grow and pulsate before closing their eyes to soundly sleep, not a care in the world, babies slowly hatching above their head, flies, gnats and mosquitos caught to feed, then one day OP’s torso is slowly wrapped in webbing as they eat their hot pocket, obsessed with Pokémon cards, day after day, the web wraps more and more around OP, not that it mattered, life stood still anyway, then one day they become food for the very thing they ignored, and out hatch OPheaded baby spiders
I have plenty of jumpers around and the other day I noticed one on my ceiling was chasing the sun glare off of my phone around and it was the cutest thing ever! I've never been able to play with a spider before that!
Free pest control, I catch and release (nonvenomous) spiders in my house and I haven't ever had a problem with any bug infestation. Plus showering is less lonely with your spider bro
Used to work for a pest control company and the number one thing I hated doing was removing spider webs. But it meant free pest control for the customer and we just can’t have that, the poor CEO needs more money.
They're friends. While they CAN bite, their venom isn't harmful to humans and they have teeny tiny ass fangs. Harmless and helpful critters. Some of my fav spider guys. 10/10 would share a space with them.
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Don’t worry they’re protecting your Pokémon cards from wild scalpers.