aawww how cute

I found this little fella in the bath a couple of weeks ago.

So just for a bit of fun I decided to raise it, to see what it turns into. I reacon it might be Araneus sp. poss diadematus (cross / garden spider) or Tegenaria sp. (common house spider), Which are the two most common spiders found in the area

Anyway it shed this morning and is now 3mm big.. hence the 'aawww cute'!!!!!

awwwww.

I think there is an eggsack or two in my bathroom, there are little spiders everywhere..

we have a ton of cellar spiders in the house, they scoff all the silverfish and escaped crickets.. useful spiders.

I'm hoping this is a cross spider though because they are gorgeous

By "cross spider," I assume you mean Argiope spp.? Orb-weavers are a pain in the BUTT to keep in captivity, IME. It's difficult to get them to do a proper web.

But they are indeed awesome.

power camera !!!!!

cross / garden spider... Araneus diadematus, or it might be Tegenaria domestica, the common house spider. I double checked the names before I typed them in the first place.

These are the most common sp. around here that don't have stupidly long legs. However if it looks like it is having problems I will release it. But it is having absolutely no problems webbing at the moment, the film cannister is full of it lol!

Araneus diadematus


Tegenaria domestica


Admittedly we get the paler versions of these spiders up here in the north of England.

^ The picture in you're first post got me scrolling up for more. Thank you for that pic Lisa. I'm using it as my personal wallpaper for the next one week (if you don't mind).

They'll web up without a problem, but true orb weavers have a hard time building a web they can trap prey in.

Tenegaria spp. shouldn't be a problem -- I've kept them in captivity before.

I have a few pitcher plants in my room, I've found quite a few baby locusts in them.. escapees. they are also munching at them

*Connie* wrote:

We used to have a "false widow" under the frog tank but when we moved she let go along the way from her little corner hidey hold under the tank She used to catch all the escaped crickets

Our friends had that exact same thing happening under their tarantula tanks -- and she was FAT!

Whoah man, Mike can I say holy mother of in this case?

"Holy mother of in this case" is fine.

Very cute indeed. I have a spider near my bed. I let him have the run of the house. LOL

turned out to be a teggy. released it last week to get escaped crickets... hope it is doing well lol

I keep finding spiders in my bathroom and they appear to be some species of funnel web, I think its a foreign species they have pretty huge fangs LMAO

cool