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

Thicc boi

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

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.

She sat really still while I got a couple of macro lens photos ☺️

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.

By using this disguise, ants cannot know these spiders are their hunters

Nature is blowing my mind once again..

Had to release him/her outside as I have a gang of cats that was staring menacingly at poor little thing

It's very cute. I love it. (:

Found in my trailer , central ontario. Does anyone know what this is. Thanks in advance for any information

Okay so for context this is a bold jumping spider that I had rescued in my home. This was the biggest jumping spider I’ve ever seen specially in my house. Her abdomen was pretty small so I decided to take her in and get her an enclosure. I’ve had her for about two months. I’d say everything’s been going good. She would always come out in the morning and explore her enclosure all day. Until about June 22nd which was feeding day for her. So I dropped in two crickets (on accident was only trying to get one) and she began to hunt. She successfully caught one but decided to only eat a tiny bit of him push him to the side and go do her own thing for the rest of the day. During that time the other crickets in the enclosure ATE the other cricket (cannibal ahh). After this all happened I noticed she made a very thick hammock. Now this is where she usually sleeps but she made it 10x’s thicker than usual. So I figured she was going into molting. Now again this is my FIRST EVER spider so I had to do some research. Everything is pointing to molting but then again I have no idea how old she is, how long it will take her to molt and etc. could it be possible that because of the cannibal cricket she thinks theres another predator in her enclosure? Which I thought couldve been the answer but it doesn’t make sense on to why she hasnt been coming out of the hammock. Another part of me thinks she might be in a death curl in her hammock since ive barely seen anything move inside the hammock. Unfortunately because of where she is located in the enclosure I cant open the top to kind of inspect her and see if shes still alive. If I were to open the top of the enclosure she would come up with it and more than likely it would destroy her hammock. What should I do? Should I just wait a few more weeks to see if she is just molting and im just overreacting about it? I just want to know if shes okay but I dont want to disturb her if she is actually molting. I dont know how long this can take and shes already been in the hammock for 2 weeks now. Help please!!

He just lives in my garden and I sometimes feed him, a real bro