r/mildlyinfuriating • u/lukewarmratpee • 4d ago
A spider gave birth in my wardrobe
I managed to hoover them all up before they started walking around but still… gross!
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u/home-for-good 4d ago
At least they’re not balloon spiders! 🎈🕷️
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u/AchromicSunfrost 4d ago
The hell are balloon spiders
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u/Zarinda 4d ago
Balloon Spiders are a collection of spider species that can "Hot Air Balloon" ride on air currents to travel as far as 1,000 miles away.
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u/StuckInStardew 3d ago
You know Charlotte's Web had me convinced all my life that this was something all spiders can do 😅😂 had no idea it was just one specific type. Honestly that brings a little bit of comfort😂
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u/home-for-good 3d ago
Some spiders can do something called ballooning where they basically spin a little balloon and catch flight on the wind.
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u/DuckRubberDuck 4d ago
I low key breed them (but only keep a controlled amount) I have long-tailed silverfish, I think they’re also called firebrats, they’re a highly invasive species in my country and hard to get rid of, but cellar spider eats them - so I quite like my cellar spiders although they breed like crazy because there’s plenty of food for them. But I definitely prefer cellar spiders over the other guys
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u/Kumihou 4d ago
does anyone know what kind of spiders these are? daddy long legs maybe?
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u/Danjonkovich 4d ago
Cellar Spider/Daddy Long Legs. Nice to keep in the home as they keep the insect invaders at bay, but definitely not in the wardrobe lol. They normally sit in the top corner of a room, motionless. They don’t wander much. Leave them be, friendly little things and not dangerous in the slightest.
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u/RarePost 4d ago
We call these Tapaytapay in our dialect. Generally harmless. They don’t approach you, they’re just…there. Not paying rent🤣
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u/mellywheats 4d ago
i read somewhere that they actually are pretty dangerous if they bite but they never do
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u/iamayoutuberiswear 4d ago
They don't actually have venom glands at all, they're completely harmless
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u/KiwiTheTORT 4d ago
It's a myth to get children to leave them alone, but nobody ever did the follow-up to tell them the truth like with the tooth fairy.
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u/Jafar_420 4d ago
Yeah I think I've been told the same story as you when I was growing up. Something like they would be the most poisonous spiders in the world but their mouth isn't big enough to bite you or something like that.
I'm not 100% but I think it's false.
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u/mellywheats 3d ago
i never was told it growing up, i just learned it a few months ago from watching a spider video or researching local spiders in my area 🤷🏻♀️
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u/neebooneeboo 3d ago
If they have venom, they have EXTREMELY mild venom. But I just looked it up and most sources are saying they don't. It's a myth.
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u/whoisthenewme 4d ago
yeah those are just daddy long legs so nothing risky AND they catch moths and stuff, Harold lives in my closet and I owe him a debt of gratitude for saving me from moth holes.
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u/TimAndHisDeadCat 4d ago
New friends.
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u/Dale_Wardark 4d ago
For real. My house has harvestmen and little spiders. Only ones I ever put outside are the water spiders that creep in from the swamp outside, they're big fuckers and the habitat isn't wet enough for them to hunt in my house lmao
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u/FuzzyDusticles 4d ago
Those are just cellar spiders, completely harmless. Scoop them up (your hands, a bowl, whatever) and move them to a basement or attic so you have your own in home pest defense.
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u/rosiebeehave 4d ago
A family of would-be mosquito assassins murdered by their boarder.
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 3d ago
Lol what's the likelihood skeeters could get trapped in that closet with the spiders before getting swatted to hell for buzzing around in the house where the people are?
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u/Dackverlue 4d ago
Why I always see spiders irl or images I got itch on my nose and the tip of my fingers
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u/Shoddy-Possible8110 3d ago
Cellar spiders are chill af.
They don't really bite people (I handle them all the time) and mostly keep to themselves. They're very good at killing other spiders too that are bad for humans.
When the mama spider lays an egg sac she chills with it in her mouth till they hatch and then they hang around like that.
they like to kind of go in a line against the ceiling or the floor where its like one spider, one spider, one spider to catch prey.
They don't really make sticky webs, instead they're like long lines that when something touches they rush over and web it up really fast and bite it.
Also fun fact if you bug one of them they'll dance around really fast on their web in a "war dance" to make themselves invisible from predators.
So I get they look bad but they're really one of the chillest spiders to have around. They're the only type I don't mess with in my house.
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u/GlitteringChampion79 4d ago
This reminds me of one of the ring series horror movies.. imagine walking in to see them everywhere. I would probably burn that wardrobe or smth.
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u/Jafar_420 4d ago
At least they're those kind. Lol. I'd hate to see a bunch of wolf spiders or brown recluses or something like that.
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u/Nevermore_Novelist 3d ago
Something similar to this happened to me, only much scarier somehow. STORY TIME!
A friend of mine let me store some things at their place for a little while, one of them being a low, 4-drawer chest of drawers. She'd kept it outside, but up against her house, underneath the outside stairs and covered with a blue tarp. Everything's fine.
I take it back, and I notice as I'm lifting it up into the bed of my dad's pickup that there's an egg sac around the back of the underside of the bottom drawer (the chest sits flush with the floor on the front and sides, but there's about an inch gap at the back for some reason), and a very dead adult black widow spider. I freak a little before realizing it's dead, and get a stick to knock away the spider. I didn't bother trying to remove the sac, because I figured if the mama spider is dead, the babies all left ages ago. My dad helps me move the chest of drawers into my new place, and I figure I'll use the thing as a makeshift desk until I can buy a proper one.
So far, everything's fine.
Later that same night, I'm on my computer getting everything set back up, and I see a small speck near the top right corner of my monitor. I get a Kleenex and brush it away, not thinking anything of it. A minute or so later, I see another black speck not too far from where the first speck had been. I go to knock it away with the Kleenex, and as I do so, I see another black speck, and this one is dropping down slowly from the top of the monitor like a spider might do. Within minutes, I saw that my desk and monitor was swarming with these nightmare nuggets.
Turns out the babies in the egg sac hadn't hatched yet, and I figure it was the change in temperature that coaxed them to finally hatch. After hastily (and carefully) removing the sac and flushing it down the toilet, I spent nearly all night squishing baby black widow spiders because of course I did.
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOPE
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 3d ago
Then spent ALL of the NEXT day and the next night MAKING DAMN SURE you got each and EVERY one of them!
Right?! (Lol)
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u/Blaule24 RED 3d ago
I had a old suitcase and had it on my atic for quite a while some weeks ago i wanted to go on vacation so i opend it and the whole thing was full of webs baby spiders and sacks.
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u/Shoe-factory101 4d ago
Oh if I saw that in my house I’m sorry but ima dig all the way to China just to get away from that
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u/Technical_Drink_7107 4d ago
What the hell man…nightmare fuel. idk why I decided to zoom into the momma but I’m not sleeping tonight lol
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u/Responsible_Oven_786 4d ago
This happened to me they were all over my ceiling, my PC, I almost went to a hotel I swear to god. Lol
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u/pumpkindonutz 3d ago
Hahah so many different types of people in the comments. In another one who loves spiders and would just be chill with them there.
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u/renriotz 3d ago
i believe you icl im not going to the next slide
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u/renriotz 3d ago
nvm im no pussy imma do it
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u/renriotz 3d ago
nah acc i am a pussy im not doing it
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u/Solid-Spread-2125 3d ago
Cellar spiders live surprisingly long lives, and are generally inactive.
When they have babies, tho, the instinct is to spread out in every direction. Can be infuriating fs
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u/OperationSweaty8017 3d ago
Looks like a daddy longlegs. Harmless and eats bugs. Let them be. They'll disperse.
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u/Creative-Rub8203 3d ago
My house have spiders in the basement (I hate spiders), and I've find some up here
SOMETIMES WHEN I GO TAKE A SHOWER, ILL FIND A FUCKING SPIDER
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u/Negative-Mud-4821 3d ago
oh those are cellar spiders! totally harmless and they actually hunt other forms of spiders and bugs, even garden spiders. we breed them in every house we have rented to keep pests out because they are so invisible and useful! sorry to hear you dont like them
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u/CandidWishbone5080 3d ago
The scariest thing I've seen on reddit. Thanks for the warning tho.
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u/Anonymous_Unknown20 3d ago
Flashbacks to the rabbits in bio paper 2 💀
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u/CandidWishbone5080 2d ago
nahhhh 💀
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u/Anonymous_Unknown20 2d ago
Imagine if that was us💀💀💀💀 (forgive me)
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u/CandidWishbone5080 2d ago
GO COMMIT UNAL;VE TO YOURSELF (I don't mean this ofc jk but you shouldn't have gone this far yk)
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u/Anonymous_Unknown20 2d ago
I bet you still laughed when you read the comment
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u/CandidWishbone5080 2d ago
ehh not at all as much as I got weirded out
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u/VishfulTinking 2d ago
Had this happen in a corner of the kitchen one year, didn't notice till a handful of the tiny guys rappelled down in front of my face :)
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u/Dear-Limit-2357 2d ago
those spiders are fine, they are very small and usually hang out on the ceiling corners... if its a spider thats big, brown and hairy.... yikes
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u/AchromicSunfrost 4d ago
I was expecting like an average spider but not THAT. Time to burn your house down
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u/Gr8danedog 4d ago
If the spiders are not poisonous to humans, then don't worry about it. They help to reduce the population of other insects.
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 3d ago
That's all well and good, but do you REALLY wanna find a spider crawling out of your suit collar while you're driving?
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u/PrincessCandy89 4d ago
Thank you very much for the warning slide