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Post by X factor on Oct 2, 2013 13:49:48 GMT -5
 (Male spider on top, introduced to females web this morning) I'm not sure what species of spiders scientist have named these..but I find them very useful. I once had an abundance of them in former place I lived in years ago, and have grown fond of them, not so much them, but the service they provide. These little spiders are like insecticides. When you look below their webs, you see all sorts of insects, that if not for the stationary spiders, would be crawling all up in your house, home and space, bed sheets, closet ect. But these little spiders put an end to that. I've studied the habits of these spiders for years...and am comfortable with them in my place..(this coming from someone who normally can't stand spiders). But here's what I like about these particular spiders... 1. They're small 2. They do not ever roam, ever, accept when male is looking for a mate. 3. There habits are the same, no matter what...they always build their webs diagonally to the flow...  The wall = a, the floor = b and c = area web covers. The web is usually not more than 3-7 inchers high, and can extend out maybe 5 inches. And in this area, spider lays out a maze of sticky web that insects crawling along floor board wonder into. 4. They aren't aggressive to humans 5. They clean up house of small knat size to even beetle size insects...(even saw one take on small scorpion and win...amazing) These spiders are masters web spinners, I've seen them take on ants way larger than itself. So anyways...I had one in back room, had been there for months, begin feeling sorry for it, so this morning a roaming male was 'way out of place'...probably out of frustration...so with handle of broom I dropped it into the web of other spider...not being sure what reaction would be. I will explain what I observed on next post... |
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Post by X factor on Oct 2, 2013 14:01:58 GMT -5
I never went to school to study insects or spiders, but that hasn't stopped me from observing and noting the habits of them since born.
No one should let not going to school for a certain subject, stop them from learning and observing that which is around them.
Anyways....
I have seen plenty of the TV documentaries on nature channel, PBS ect, about the mating cycle of insects and spiders...and I do know that's what most live for...basically the only reason they live, is to reproduce.
So when I dropped this male spider in the female spiders web...almost instantly the male knew where it was, and just as instantly the normally aggressive female spider, instead of attacking, just sat back.
The female spider, obviously, could make the distinction of prey from same species to possible mate, just by the way the male spider interacted with the web.
I also observed that this species of spider uses the same web.
Like if you through another spider in a web not it's own, it can navigate, and will become entangled just like any other insect.
But this particular species of spider, they seem to share same web or silk DNA...and can navigate each other webs with ease.
What amazed me...is in the early morning darkness, this have blind spider went from panic mode (me hanging it from broomstick handle) to 'date mode' almost instantly.
As soon as I dropped it in females web...it went to work, I found that amazing.
It went from panic, to romance, in seconds.
And felt, worked it's way to female spider in less than 5 minutes.
Female spider never once attacked or lunged.
Then they met up..and did some kind of odd ritual dance, to which I stopped observing cause I wasn't sure if it was going to be a good outcome or not, so I left.
But as you can see with photo up above, after being gone for a few hours, when I returned, all was well.
It's as if the male spider moved in or something.
Who ever thought spider could be social like that...I guess after they did their thing, male spider decided to stick around...
More observations to follow...
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Post by X factor on Oct 5, 2013 16:42:46 GMT -5
Up date:
The male spider is gone...saw something in females jaws this morning...not sure if it was male spider or not.
I really want to capture a few daddy long legged web spiders, the types you see in warehouses...they are true web masters...and will rid your apartment, house, of all sorts of insects that fly and crawl around as you sleep....
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Post by X factor on Dec 14, 2013 19:08:27 GMT -5
The spider pictured in above picture...is still there, back in that room...all alone...I posted first post on here about it back in October...so a few months have gone by...
In above photo..I relocated spider of similar or same species...thought they mated...guess not...no baby spiders yet...
I wonder if this spider is celebit...cause all it does is sit there in it's web...
Not sure what to do...I spray it with water bottle every 5 days or so...just to give it some 'action' and mimic normal weather pattern of rain and mist...
It actually drinks the water off web or floor...
But underneath web you can see small insect carcauses...I guess spiders can go months without food.
If it were summer...I'd might relocate it outside...but I think these types of spiders like inside places, dry, stable, no wind or weather.
What the heck is this thing thinking about all this time...to just hang there, upside down, no action, no friends, nothing...to just sit there, as still as a stature day after day, week after week...that would drive me insane...
Yet as soon as an insect taps web...spider is quick as lightning...
Do spiders, insects, think?
Do they have random thoughts?
Do they have aspirations?
Do they dream?
Do they think about tomorrow?
Do spiders know about equal rights for other insects?
This spider..so small...never moves from 8x8 inch area...just there...for months...not sure what to make of it.
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Post by X factor on Feb 1, 2014 17:55:33 GMT -5
By the way, that spider in above pic is still there, still in exact same place...and I first posted this back in October of 2013. All that aside, I saw a bigger, larger, more uglier spider today in vehicle, and wanted to blast it to hell with a shot gun.  I have no tolerance for roaming spiders with big azz eyeballs, none, zero. |
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Post by X factor on Feb 11, 2014 21:34:48 GMT -5
This spider continues to live in back room, same place, hardly no movement accept when I spray it with water bottle to mimic rain and morning dew.
I wish it would leave...just go away, drift off somewhere...but instead it stays in web, same location...content to just lay there still, until web disturbed.
I've even tried dumping other spiders in web, of same breed...but this female spider is grouchy, or picky or something...cause no eggs, no spider hobbits, no nothing...it just hangs there in web, since October or earlier...
What the heck am I suppose to do...and if it does die eventually...do I hold some kind of spider funeral for it...
Odd azz beast...I wish it would leave...but I'm to kind to displace it on my own...
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Post by X factor on Feb 21, 2014 20:32:51 GMT -5
Sad to say, the spider, written about here, the one in the picture above, is finally gone...
I went in room one night and it simply wasn't there.
Maybe it died, I don't know...maybe it lived through it's natural life span.
But I was kind of sad...and still am.
Cause it was always there, in that one spot.
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Post by X factor on May 18, 2020 22:54:32 GMT -5
There's this one particular type of micro sized house spider you mainly see if have tile or hardwood floors, and when I say micro sized, I mean like the size of a pinhead, yet they scurry around hyper fast, they're both hyper small and hyper fast, (thank goodness), cause if not, either they or I would have to go.
But tried looking up these micro small pinhead sized spiders you see racing over floor, if disturbed, but dumb people who do research, when you say 'house spiders', they only think of the mainstream kind like 'brown recluse', wolf spider, yadda, the typical larger horrible looking demon created beasts.
But when I say small, I mean small....like the size of this}*, and ascritch mark (fine, I can't spell asterich or asterick whatever)...
But this is the size of them usually * a asterik asteric astric whatever, mark.
Or maybe even this size.....@.....or this #, but never much larger, but they move at hyper speed and if the size of a Porscha or Porsh or Porcha sports car...whatever man...OK, I can't spell right now...if the size of a sports car, they'd probably be clocked at over 200 m.p.h.
And I'm not sure if they're babies, or fully grown at that time, they must be fully grown, cause I never see them any larger than that, and sure I would have after all these years.
And also not sure what prey spiders this small here...# could and would feed on?, I mean at that size you'd think they themselves would be food for other insects.
A spider that size can't have very powerful fangs at all, and the amount of toxins a spider that size could inject would have to be very minimal as well, so what prey do they eat, I wonder.
And the types I speak of usually do not live in webs...yes I'm aware of the web sized corner spiders that are a bit larger, and they usually 'web up', where floor meets wall, they like to ride low, like low rider spiders, and usually don't get much larger than this '8' the letter 8.
Imagine if the letter 8 had legs, that's about as large as they get accept after a meal, then they swell, like mites and tics do.
And no, I don't feel like google photoing right now, the last thing I need on my mind, before bed, is images of gigantic ugly spiders.
And why do spiders need so many eyes?, and no eye lids?, to have so many eyes, and not be able to blink, makes them all the more creepier, their eyes are constantly wedged wide open, and they cannot blink, ever, even when dead, their eyes are still open.
Which ever 'god' created spiders, what were they thinking?
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Post by X factor on Jan 16, 2021 23:39:41 GMT -5
I have tile floors that are white, or about white, so can observe a lot of contrasting things.
One thing I observe often when wiping floors clean, mainly near edges and corners is like micro sized spiders about this size [ . ], about the size of that dot, maybe just a bit larger.
You can see them scurrying away at times, they're so small you really don't even see their legs, just a dot moving...and no, they're not 'bed bugs'...haven't seen a bed bug since stopped visiting cheap Hotels years and years ago.
This are micro sized little spiders that seem to prefer living inside of homes.
But my questions is, I know spiders are predators for the most part, but being the size of a dot, allows a predator to feed upon what?
What does something that small prey upon?
Let alone drink?
To me it would be easier to survive outside than inside a dry arid place with no easy access to water or prey.
Maybe when that small, just breathing in oxygen is the same as water.
But obviously they survive and eat something, or wouldn't be inside of peoples homes or mine.
I guess there's a whole society of micro sized insects that most of us just never notice or see.
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