Baby house spider question.

[demicav]

Found a few of these wandering on the kitchen floor first thing in the morning. Really cute they are. Does anyone know when juvenile House spiders are born. This happened once before a while back in the downstairs toilet, there were so many of them we were collecting them in a jar where they proceeded to begin eating one another .

[jacobsmomma]

Can't help to when they are born, but found one drowned in the kitchen sink Sunday morning, and 1 ambling around the living room last night. Hopefully the cats didn't get at it

[Venger]

What are we talking about here, a Tegenaria sp?
If so they usually emerge around July - so who knows?
Can you get pic of the spiderlings and the egg sac?

[Meta menardi]

Whilst agreeing with Venger completely, you can also add, whenever you have seen the hatchlings. Juveniles aren't easy to ID.

I was walking up the road from town yesterday on a tarmac pavement when I spotted a juv Thomisid (crab spider). It was so small that I could not collect it, It was in the normal wrinkly bits of the tarmac surface and so very small. Before anyone says it, even small movements of a very small object can be spotted even at quite a quick walk.

The day before, we had snow, cleared by salt on the pavement.

[Dutchess]

As we all are aware, those pesky fleas have developed a longer breeding season due to central heating, but is it the same for other insects/spiders? And therefore, do similar species in tropical climes breed all year round?

Late night ponderings.

D.

[Action_Man]

If they are "really cute", then this would rule out Tegenaria (imo) , there`s nothing cute about these little beasts ...

[Action_Man]

This is a juvenile i found this afternoon, and in a strange place, it was in an external door-jam, it was perhaps 6mms long ...

[Venger]

Looks like it's from last years hatchlings, they take a while to mature.

[JRsbugs]

I have had a few very small baby spiders in my kitchen the last 3 days or so, they are a scant 2mm long if that, those teensy weensy little balls with legs.

I got some pics of one which I haven't downloaded yet, it is yellow with black on it's back so could be Araneus diadematus, although they do look smaller than some I took pics of lst year on 16th May in my greenhouse. I'll start a thread when I have the pics ready.