Wolf spiders not only take care of their young, the female transports them around on her back. This summer I saw one wander past our back patio taking the kids somewhere.
I liked having the tiny jumping spiders around because they would eat flies and other insects. One time I was sitting at my desk when I saw one dragging a dead fly up the window blinds:
Generally speaking, spiders won’t choose to be where humans are. We had a tarantula nest in the front yard in Texas for a while, but it was right on the garden path so after the next time we took the bins out the spider packed up and went somewhere else.
I find I can be more nonchalant about sharing room with spiders than sharing room with any flying insect lol. Spiders don’t attack my face while I’m scrolling my phone in the dark.
Update: Spider’s gone lol. My door was closed overnight, and it’s a fairly big spider, so there aren’t really a lot of places it could be hiding in my room. It was on the ceiling above my bed, so there’s a chance it might have fallen while I was sleeping, landed on the mattress, panicked, and fled between the mattress and the wall.
I don’t keep anything under my bed, so if it makes a home there, then I’m not at risk of disturbing it.
Either way, I’m not too worried, but I’ll keep an eye out for it, because I don’t want to accidentally crush it by moving any objects that it’s hiding near.
EDIT: If it’s hiding under my subwoofer, then it’s about to be very disappointed in it’s choice of hiding spot in 3… 2… 1…
There’s a particularly adventurous spider wandering around my room the past couple of days. It keeps rappelling down from wherever around my desk at random times. So far it has not figured out how to reach my bed, and hopefully that doesn’t change.
Very silly spider. I have no clue what it’s doing. It looks like a web-keeper, so I really don’t why it’s so mobile all the time. It’s also remarkably calm; I managed to softly pat it with the end of a slip of paper, and it really didn’t care.
Image description: A very small, orange spider resting in a dense cluster of cobwebs. The shot shows mostly the underside. Two dark points mark the ends of pedipalps, and the opisthosoma is a darker brown. Body length is approximately 2 millimeters long. The legs are curled chaotically, as the spider finds footing within the tangled mass.
I feel like this one has a bit more red color than the one I remember, and it’s just slightly smaller, but also it’s definitely the same species. Either my memory is bad (more likely) or there are two of these hanging out near my desk (less likely).
EDIT: Worth mentioning that there is a known psychological anomaly where spiders are always larger in memory than in life, so I’m not putting a lot of faith in the remembered size difference here.
Image description: I’m gonna be real with you, the spider doesn’t look any different. In this image, the friend is climbing a wall. Digital noise artifacts created a strange red-green-blue criss-cross pattern.
Okay, seeing the spider doing a familiar task (exploring the wall by my desk) under familiar lighting has revealed to me that it is the same spider as before. The leg span and shading threw me off.
Cheddar’s a new one on me, but I’m so used to nonsensical euphemisms(I’m not sure that’s the right word, not like money is a concept censors get up in arms about, but I’m not sure what to call it and it has the feel of euphemism) for money I just assumed that’s what it was talking about.
Though, considering 200mm is nearly 8 inches(8" is 203.2mm by the modern definition of the inch, 25.4mm) a 200mm lens sounds rather impractical for a camera… assuming the measurment is referring to lens diameter. Heck, that sounds big for a portable telescope of the kind used for casual stargazing.
A 200mm macro lens’s dimensions vary by model, but a common size for a fixed 200mm macro lens is approximately 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter and 7.5 inches (191 mm) in length. Still fairly big, but it allows for specialized macroscopic photography. Basically taking photos of tiny things in very close-up high detail.
Image description: A mid-size jumping spider, with big forward eyes; all the better to see you with! The body is mostly a dark gray with silver stripes. In real life, surfaces of the spider shimmer with small patches of green, when viewed from certain angles. The body is about a centimeter long. A small tuft of silver hairs decorate the chelicerae, like a beard. The spider maintains the beloved jumper pose: body tilted upward by the extended forward legs, with the remaining legs arrayed outward for balance.
Apparently this lil cutie was hunting in my parents’ bathroom! My mom flagged it and asked if I wanted to bring it outside. Needless to say, discovering that it was a jumping spider made my day!
I was concerned about it being cold outside, but actually the temperature was pretty mild, so the spider shouldn’t have any difficulty hunting out there!
It was very reluctant to leave the jar, though. I felt kinda sad, but also I don’t have the means to take care of a pet jumping spider, so it was best to find a good patch of ground (far from the lizards) to release it.
