Tiny White Spider

[posie]

...A VERY tiny white spider is living on the black surround of my PC screen. It is so small you can only just see it. I've never seen a spider this colour before. Is it white because it is newly hatched, or because of it's type/species? ..Posie

[No.9 Spider]

A photo would be a good help, though from your description it's possibly a spiderling. Another possible but unlikely candidate is one of our smaller 'house' species Oonopidae - though these are nocturnal fast moving spiders and don't 'live' in the circumstances described. Is the spider in a web of some sort and for how long has it been 'living' in the location?



No.9 Spider

[Kayleigh]

I think that's a big challenge to take a pic of a tiny spider in the house where light is poor..

Have you named him Poe..

[posie]

Watch this space...

[Action_Man]

Salticus scenicus spiderlings are nearly white, and you sometimes find these in the home ...

[posie]

Originally Posted by Action_Man

Salticus scenicus spiderlings are nearly white, and you sometimes find these in the home ...

+Thanks A-Man, this one has no colour whatsoever, no markings yet, guess markings will come later. It is very very tiny, and creamy white, it was on my monitor, but let itself down (on a line of web) into an empty whiskey glass(luckily completely dry tho' had had whiskey and ginger in it) and has stayed in there since(2days) and has made a small web structure in there, which I can't actually see, but can just see the spiderling run across the surface of it,so I know it is there. I occasionally run a tiny smear of water into glass, and have put some sausage meat and a little wetted 'layers mash' in bottom of glass. What should he/she have to eat? It seems ok and is sometimes very active; It also waves it's legs about, is this when it is making a web? I find it amazing that such a tiny, tiny creature can make a web ! .....Posie..

[posie]

Originally Posted by No.9 Spider

A photo would be a good help, though from your description it's possibly a spiderling. Another possible but unlikely candidate is one of our smaller 'house' species Oonopidae - though these are nocturnal fast moving spiders and don't 'live' in the circumstances described. Is the spider in a web of some sort and for how long has it been 'living' in the location?



No.9 Spider

Hello No.9, Yes I guess it must be a spiderling as you said. I can't get decent photo yet, cos it's sooo small, but hope to work something out later to get a decent pic. It now has a web, as said in post above. Thanks Posie..

[posie]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

I think that's a big challenge to take a pic of a tiny spider in the house where light is poor..

Have you named him Poe..

Hi Kayleigh, Yes his official name is *GOLIATH*......but I call him 'Incy Wincy Spider'...Wincy for short.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by posie

Hi Kayleigh, Yes his official name is *GOLIATH*......but I call him 'Incy Wincy Spider'...Wincy for short.

Aww bless him..
Looking forward to the pic lol

[Action_Man]

It would only eat live food, perhaps drop an Aphid onto its, what sounds like, sheet web ...