#Common House Spider

[onenicebugperday]

So I found this spider under the bench in a rather unusual position and have been having trouble identifying them. Found in rural Tennessee.

Current theory is Brown Widow or some kind of orb weaver.

She's a cobweb spider in Theridiidae which does include brown widows but this friend is not that! She appears to be a common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum.

#cptmackerel #bugs #submission #arachnids #spider #cobweb spider #common house spider

[thereissomethingunderthestairs]

A common house spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum) and her babies….

#theres about five separate house spiders in my shed #each with at least one egg sac #so i guess they’re eating pretty well.. #spiders #arachnids #insects #common house spider

[addisonm11]

Spider Ma’am

#common house spider #macro #macro photography #insect photography #spiders #Canon MP-E 65 #bug photography #insects

[gyrrakavian]

The Spiders in Your House - the Common House Spider

The gags at 9:49 and 11:37 caught me completely offguard.

#the spiders in your house #common house spider #american common house spider #parasteatoda tepidariorum #don't set fire to your house #spiders #science

[lanaevyssmoved]

i just woke up and my pet spider is working on it’s web today and it’s so fun to watch. good job buddy

#fray.txt #it’s not like in a house i made for it or anything #like my jumping spider will be 💛 #it just sits in my window looking pretty and sunbathing all day #spider for ts #idk if that’s needed but #i would share pictures but spider fear is common

[morbidsmenagerie]

Found this male at work! ID'd him as a Theridion melanurum, or Common House Combfoot. They're in the same family as widows but not medically significant. Gave him a drink of water and put him outside.

#invertebrates #invertiblr #inverts #invert #bugblr #spider #true spider #Theridion melanurum #common house combfoot

[paintsplash1712]

I want to make a Spidey-sona so bad!

But I'm English, we have no cool or unique looking spiders and everything I could've used have already been used by Spider-Punk!

Why is the UK so boring?!

#Google isn't helping #When i try looking up spiders they just keep showing jumping or the common house spider #give me some colourful or unique spiders! #when are all these artists finding these cool looking spiders?! #I MUST KNOW! #spidersona #into the spiderverse #spiderverse #artist problems #art help #spider man

[woolandcoffee]

It is horrifically windy today, and whatever system is moving through has been bad enough to give me a pressure headache. Plus my partner has to make an unexpected trip to help is dad following some family drama. He's been house sitting all week and was supposed to come home tomorrow morning, but now we don't know when he'll be home. Not only do I miss his company, but last night I had to kill a black widow spider all by myself (beat it to death with a large shovel while shrieking hysterically, you should all be very proud) which I would not have had to do if he were home!

Anyways I'm a grumpy little goblin this afternoon and am looking forward to going home.

#woolly rambles #sorry to the spider fans out there but i am deeply afraid of them #i can keep my chill around common household spiders but poisonous ones are a whole different story #i just happened to have the shovel in my hand thank goodness otherwise i would have had to give it the house

[theflyingfeeling]

Hi 🤗🖤, I am just here to leave some pretty flowers in your ask box! 🌸🪷🏵🌹🌺🌼🌷🪻⚘️🌻

Hi!! Awwww thanks for the flowers 🥰 I hope I can keep them alive though, I have a reputation of killing even the easiest houseplants 😩

#a houseplant update no one asked for: #captain treville the zz plant is the good boy he's always been but i feel like his branches need support 🤔 #constance the spider plant my goodest little girl who's been through a lot is hanging in there i guess (relatable) #according to my mom porthos the heartleaf philodendron was not having a great time a few weeks ago but he's better now i suppose #(i had forgotten to water him 😪) #milady de winter the leaf cactus is a well-behaving lady these days. she used to drop lots of leaves but has since mended her ways #aramis (3.0) the ivy is still on vacation (at my parents' house) but should be moving in next weekend #(please don't tell him what happened to aramis and aramis 2.0 🤫) #i also had 4 common tradescantias that all died during the summer 🙃 #apparently they die as fast as they grow lol

[the-busy-ghost]

Well I have just removed what was possibly the largest spider I have ever seen in the UK from my clean hallway, and thought to myself ‘Huh I wonder if house spiders are getting bigger’ so I made the terrible mistake of googling it and:

Thank you tabloid journalism.

#Arachnophobia tw #Spiders tw #spider tw #insects tw #housekeeping #Earth & Stone #Look I am not a member of the anti-spider brigade #But I have never seen spiders like this #Except in Australia and even then they had the good manners to stay in the Botanic Gardens where they belong #Those who may be contemplating buying a period home please be spider aware #Not just the size but possibly the number; the nooks and crannies that aren't easily accessible; and the height of ceilings when removing #To be fair I think my house is a special case #Not only do I have single glaze sash and case windows #But the common stairwell is very very dusty and possibly hasn't been cleaned since 1965 #It's a grey area you see #I'm going to get round to it soon #But because of that (and the weird lack of finishes to flooring and skirting in some parts of the house) the spiders have got out of control #Well #That's not fair #It's their house too #But keeping on top of cobwebs and dust helps to set boundaries #The question is did I just remove a summer interloper or have I just evicted a long-time resident #A spider descended from a long line of spiders who have inhabited this house for at least fifty and possibly even 400+ years #Am I going to face cosmic vengeance for this #And also how the hell did it get in #I assume the open window or the stair #But I just cleaned that hallway yesterday and there was nowhere for it to hide #And it was BIG #Not like those weird spindly dusty spiders that crop up under the skirting #I'm talking nearly the whole length of a plug socket

[onenicebugperday]

@moth-queer submitted: This little spider has found a home in my windowsill, amongst my plants. I'm in western Washington, any clue what type of spider this is?

I can tell you it looks like a cobweb spider in the family Theridiidae, but I'd need to see the other side to tell you which genus or species for sure. Potentially a common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum.

#animals #bugs #spider #arachnids #submission #cobweb spider #common house spider #maybe

[prettyblondguys]

Please tell me about the bugs in your area

Oh hohoo, *cracks knuckles* alrighty then

Ok SO

I guess I'll tell you about some of my favorite interactions with the lovely bugs in my area, starting with my sweet sweet babies, wasps.

Specifically paper wasps. It's a pretty common occurrence for me to "feed" the ones we get around here lol. On really hot days I'll leave chopped up slices of orange out there for them. One time I was sitting on the back porch on a scorcher of a day, and this poor little fella was very obviously having a rough go of it. He ended up flying over to the orange slice I left out and enjoying it lol. It kept going to fly away but then it would stop and come back. Twas very cute. I love the little things so much, they aren't very aggressive unless provoked. Just be sure to know your wasps bc they can and will sting!!!! (They aren't as aggressive as other wasps, but they are still wasps, so watch out lol)

One time it started pouring down raining all of a sudden, and this little fella got caught in it. Wasps can't fly once they get fully wet, so he was trying to dry his wings off, but the rain was just coming down too strong. This was before I had many interactions with them so I was still a bit nervous considering it was a wasp, but I felt so bad for the poor thing, so I picked up a big leaf (so I wouldn't have to put my hand too close lol) and held it over it, so the rain wouldn't get on it and give it a chance to dry it's wings. It did and after about a minute, it was good to go and quickly flew off :)

there's so many more bug stories but I've made this a very long answer as it is lol

#lovely anons🌷 #bugs my beloveds #and yes I catch and release spiders I find where they shouldn't be #not common house ones tho #they're chill

[magioffire]

i keep seeing yellow sac spiders on lists of spiders that are ‘dangerous’, literally right under brown recluses and black widows and im like. uhhhh no. they are more comparable to the bite of a wolf spider or a cobweb spider (if even THAT. more like a bee sting?) than a fucking brown recluse omg. maybe the reason youre getting a 4 inch necrotic welt on your leg from a yellow sac spider bite is because youre not treating it and youre itching it with your dirty fucking nails (trust me ive been there and its totally from introducing foreign bacteria to what amounts to a puncture wound into your body :) )

#fhsjsbhdgj i hate misinformation about spiders #like saying a yellow sac spider is among the most dangerous spiders is like saying #that an oppossom or a dog is among the most dangerous mammals #technically true if you have to put them on a list but they really arent that dangerous compared to other mammals #ive lived with yellow sacs in my house for years. handled them. been bitten by them. never had an issue?? #maybe im just lucky lol #but to me they dont deserve to be placed under a fucking brown recluse and black widow omg #ooc. #spiders cw #they are pretty common so thats maybe why people think they are dangerous. if people encounter enough wolf spiders for instance #someone is eventually gonna get bit and have a bad reaction #but i dont buy it when the internet says they are SOOsOOOOO dangerous #like if i got bit by a brown recluse or black widow. i would go to the fucking hospital #if i got bit by a yellow sac? i would say eh and clean it and just watch it #those are two very different levels of 'dangerous'

[depresseddepot]

not to sound dramatic or anything but magic is real and I know its real because I swore a contract w the spiders in my room about a year ago to never purposefully harm them or let them come to harm so long as they ate all the other bugs in my room and now anytime someone purposefully kills a spider near me I am momentarily possessed and have to literally restrain myself from tackling the person who did it

#this post is meant to be silly but to be clear i am AFRAID of spiders #so for me to now have a knee jerk reaction to injure MYSELF to protect a spider as a result of an ''agreement'' is. fascinating #like. did i make an actual contract w these spiders? im cool w it if so but i didnt think bodily possession would be included #the agreement is like a year and a half or so old at this point but honestly 10/10 would reccomend. i have almost no bugs in my room now #and i actually see LESS spiders than i did before #we are now Allies #anyways this post was prompted by finding the biggest fucking spider crawling up my sock #and having the mental fortitude to force my fear down like i literally swallowed it and took her outside #normally if they're small i just let them disappear (out of sight out of mind) #and if they're big (wolf spiders are common here) the rules are: if you aren't bothering me i won't bother you #like i had a spider (not wolf but similarly big) that lived in an unused closet for a while #and every morning he would crawl across my sharp shitty ceiling very slowly and then crawl back #and like. he wasn't bothering me. he was just going for a walk #however: touching me or my stuff is off limits #my bed and my desk and my body are places they are Not allowed #i dont kill them still obv but they will be escorted outside #the big big ones i always take outside bc they would die indoors anyways (not enough birds? or whatever they eat. theyre huge) #sorry i got carried away #swear agreements with the spiders in your house and profit #get possessed occassionally but its fine #i also have an unspoken contract with yellowjackets but nothing formal yet #one day when i have a yard ill have contracts w lots of stuff. yellowjackets and bees and stray cats and snakes and possums #i don't like talking to people but i do like creatures (so long as they aren't touching me (<- prone to the heeby jeebies))

[gyrrakavian]

From the new channel The Spiders in Your House -in his episode on the common house spider.

#the spiders in your house #american common house spider #common house spider #spiders #common house spiders have an insanely high infant mortality rate so don't set any fires #parasteatoda tepidariorum

[brinelakes]

i hope you are all enjoying my spiderposting

#op #this is like . kindof an attempt to fight my Common House Spider Attacking & Killing Me phobia . they're just little guys