Aren’t they all considered house spiders if you found them in your house?Collecting spiders out of my flat for rehousing outside. All of them decided to play dead, something I didn’t know they did (not sure if they’re house or grass spiders). There was one little bugger who was SO stubborn, that I literally had to roll her onto the cardboard to pick her up. It all went fine, until she decided to stop playing dead and chase me across the room.
I was raised to understand that house spider was a common name for species Tegenaria, specifically Tegenari domestica. I could be wrong, but I’ve only ever heard of those nasty long-legged brown monsters being called house spiders. Everything else is just a spood.
I joke.
I used to call true spiders 'house spiders'...lol
It's similar here. The giant house spider is Eratigena atrica and the common house spider is Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
P. tepidariorum reminds me of the giant spiders from Jumani. EEP! I think I’ve seen those in eastern Canada, but not here in the west.
I see them quite frequently. Have kept them too. They're a pretty fun very low maintenance spider
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I took away two of my L. variolus female's egg sacs, then to test this theory, I decided to wait a week before I returned the first one, and two days for the second one. She ended up accepting both, then I removed them once more once the signs of hatched slings presented itself.
My guess is that the computer didn't make vibrations the right way/enough to attract them.I have since wondered what made them react that way, and have played fly sound effects on my computer but it didn't work. The spiders must have heard the buzz and how near it was.
Proof that humanity's brains are becoming smoother by the day.
I think it’s hilarious. I never thought people actually used that word non anecdotally.
Have you tried telling them their article is fake news? I'm sure that'll get you a good response.
I did, but not in those exact words. The one who called me a mansplainer, I just told her that it doesn’t substitute her not having anything to prove me wrong.
Speaking of memory, Little Neighbour disappeared one day from her old web and was away for a month. Then I saw her come walking back from the corner where I have a little table. She was hungry, had lost weight so much she had a little buckle on her butt. It was during the winter and I had no idea where she were so I couldn't feed her. So, she walked back and inspected her old web and her old retreat (a little piece of paper tissue that had missed the wasterpaper basket =P ). The old web wasn't good enough, for some reason, so she put test strands of silk near the wastepaper basket, and I thought "Oh no, I'll need to empty it sometimes!" But she changed her mind and found a better place on the bottom of a floor lamp. Little did she know that a tiny male, Mini Neighbour, had a web attached to the same lamp.
They were good neighbours for months until their webs got so big that they interweaved. Little Neighbour sees Mini as an intruder, and have chased him around the web, and now they have swtiched places. Sheesh! I separated their webs last night and put a glass jar as a barrier between them. That will have to do for now.
Mini is so cute. He was really TINY when I discovered him. When I couldn't find Little Neighbour I sprayed a little water here and there to see if she was around to come and drink, but instead this tiny little spood came running down his invisible web.
Collecting spiders out of my flat for rehousing outside. All of them decided to play dead, something I didn’t know they did (not sure if they’re house or grass spiders). There was one little bugger who was SO stubborn, that I literally had to roll her onto the cardboard to pick her up. It all went fine, until she decided to stop playing dead and chase me across the room.
Baha! Sorry. One watches a tad too much BBC.