spiderlings

[Toddy]

It's summer and I don't need much sleep. I was up at three this morning and wandered round the garden with the cat.
I saw something writhing on the very edge of the small shed door and then realised what I was looking at.
It was a hatching of spiderlings; minute little buggits just spinning their first lines.
I got a couple of photos with the camera on flash, this is the best of them. It's a larch lap shed, so that gives an idea of scale. The spiderlings are pinhead sized.

Eventually I brushed them off into a dustpan and put them in the hedge. It's a mix of beech, holly and birch, and the birch new growth always seems to attract green and white fly, they'll feed well there

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Bumpy]

Excellent! Reminds me of that scene in Charlotte's Web...
Great photo!

 

[dave53]

i dont like spiders makes me shiver just looking at that picture yet when im out in the wilderness they dont bother me ,must be a confined space thing i dont know regards dave

 

[_scorpio_]

haha love those little spider babies. especially when they cuddle up in a massive ball and you poke em and it explodes the only spiders i have ever picked up without fear was a massive handful of those guys, and i keep tarantulas!

 

[Harvestman]

Those look like baby garden spiders to me, although it is difficult to tell at such an early age.

 

[Toddy]

I've no idea what specific spider they belong to, all I do know is that these tiny wee ones were yellow bodied with a black dot at the backside.
We get a fair number of spiders, everything from the huge great Atlas ones to the little jumpy black and white striped ones.
Thankfully, I'm not feared of spiders Not so keen on fluttery things though :yikes:

cheers,
M

 

[Bumpy]

Detest flies with a passion. Spiders catch, kill and eat flies... therefore like spiders! Quite happy to have their webs all over the house if it reduces the dirty flies...

 

[Paganwolf]

They are Araneus diadematus spiderlings The common orb web spider. Nice pic...

 

[locum76]

Detest flies with a passion. Spiders catch, kill and eat flies... therefore like spiders! Quite happy to have their webs all over the house if it reduces the dirty flies...

My sentiments exactly.