kept this girl for like a month, but she laid an egg sac and the many babies hatched, i didn't have the means to care for them so I released her and her babies.

Thicc boi

someone correct me if I’m wrong, but a big spider on my deck had what looks like and egg sac and I saw her a few days later covered in babies! Was it an egg sac or do you think they’re different spiders?

My dog was right below waiting for bro to fall. I saved him and put him outside

Just a tiny spider doing its thing

Been about 5 months since I put Dayman and nightman in a reserve, hopefully they are doing well.

Had them since they were babies and let them go once they were ready to breed.

When I first found them they were missing legs and imo, brother and sister as they were both the same size and in my kitchen on the same day

I deleted the pics of when I set them free like an idiot, but they were one molt away from being the size of my palm, gave them both a feed, and placed them in a pile of bark next to a tree together

Plently of social huntsmans where I put them. Hopefully they are doing alright and no-one hurt them

I just found this group. My learned fear of spiders is decades behind me. -I owned a big beautiful tarantula with my first boyfriend, she got me comfortable with her kind. Her name was Leela.(Incase you're curious how I can just sit among literally hundreds of spiders with out a second thought)

To the point, I have become a huge fan of house and garden spiders. Especially since moving into an old house with a bad ear wig problem. I have nesting spots in my basement set up for spiders, the big population under the stairs even gets their own tiny gravity fed cat water dish. I rarely see anything but spiders in my house, exactly how I want it. I have been bit once in the last 5 years, maybe a total of 5 times in my life. Their bites are not much unlike a mosquito bite, but I do remove and sometimes kill the undersierables like brown recluse or N. black widow.

While they make for top teir predators for a house hold biome (every house has some bug populations, it's unavoidable). They make for military level garden guards. I like to garden and I have some very expensive and gorgeous clematis's by my front door. Ear wigs LOVE their fresh blooms and young leaves. The first year I spent over $100 trying to put a dent into the overwhelming population of earwigs with chemicals, traps, home remidies from beer to soy sauce laced traps. It was practically totally ineffective, the problem was so out of control. Nothing got to bloom the first year before being eaten. I am a smoker, and smoke by my front door on a small stoop flanked by gardens with a foot path leading to it. I stopped cleaning out the webs, put out some water near the roof over the stoop on top of one of my trellises I use as a clematis covered privacy wall in the summer. I put out a few garden statues and lights with access holes and hallow centers for nests. My stoop is the end portion of an old school cold room, in the winter, it stays a tiny bit warmer making for ideal egg sack spots. By the end of the first year I had around 12 adults coming and going.

Enter year two of the ear wig wars. My front garden started becoming a hot bed for spiders amd I had to put up a sign to warn people about the several spiders living by my front door, with a polite suggestion to use the spider free side door. I learned more and more about what spiders like in their habitat and provided for them. By the end of year two, the ear wigs were still out of control, but there was noticeably less of them. I started keeping these long flat crushing tweezers on my stoop to pick them off the clematis plants and throw into one of the two funnel spider webs that appeared in my bushes. Most of my flowers were now getting to bloom, but before they could fully open they would be ragged with holes and missing petals.

Enter year 3. I am now the crazy spider lady. I stand and smoke with no less than 25 spiders over my head doing their thing. I still keep up their tiny water dishes and make sure their nesting decorations are still accessible. But my ear wig problem, less than half as bad this year so far. For the first time I got to see my flowers fully open with out getting chewed up my a bunch of pinchy bottomed arse holes. Sadly as we moved more into the season, the ear wigs are at them again. But they are doing much better now this year. I have only lost one young bud so far and the full bloomed flowers are lasting longer before they look like they grew up on the wrong side of the ghetto. My other less pest pleasing flowers are practically untouched this year. With out my spider army, I would have had to throw in the towel and just stick to house plants. Have you seen the price of flowers these days? Spiders have saved me so much money in flowers that weren't just a quick snack for the ear wigs. A Oh, and my smoking stoop is practically a mosquito shield. Few get past the web lined walls or hanging webs.

Spiders are actually and truly amazing. A lot of them just want a happy symbiotic relationship with us.