Acorn is feeling comfy enough in her new enclosure to hang out in the open. She's already built a web from one end to the other 🕸️ #spidersky

Acorn playing peekaboo in her new house #spidersky

A new friend moved into my kitchen, and the two houseflies who have been bugging us for the last several days have conspicuously gone missing 🤔 #spidersky

Please look at this absolutely stunning Steatoda triangulosa I found at work. She looks like a Rorschach test. #spidersky

We love behaviors that are usually hidden- often due to the sheer fact that they are hard to observe-like sleep. But we’ve also been wondering about things like: what do these spiders do (and how do they sleep) in heavy tropical rain?? We are determined to find out! #portia #fieldfun #RAINforest

Does anyone else climb on top of their washing machine wearing a headlamp to take blurry pictures of the false widow on their ceiling, or is it just me? #spidersky

Coco came racing off their web to drink some water! Be like Coco and stay hydrated #spidersky

I can't get decent pictures of my spiders through the foggy plastic of their deli cups, but I still enjoy this spooky backlit image of Oscar the barn funnel weaver with their dinner #spidersky

This is what it looks like in my basement

Even more reasons to love Tegenaria domestica phys.org/news/2025-11...

This is Oscar, a skinny little funnel weaver with a missing leg I found in a crumpled paper towel behind my bathroom garbage can. I love them with my entire heart.

Happy Halloween! Here's Acorn the false widow taking down a fruit fly 💀 #arachtober

Digging into the archives for the final day of #arachtober and found this very Halloween-y bold jumper who built a hammock in my garage door PIN pad (a popular location for sleepy spiders in my yard over the summer 💤)

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It's getting cold and we're entertaining fewer spider visitors. Most of the insects who rode in on our firewood have died off, so the lean months are beginning for my household spiders. But my false widow, Acorn, will have a luxurious winter being a spoiled pet! #arachtober

Why have you built a wall, Riri? What kind of spider shenanigans are these?? #arachtober

Just the tiniest baby T. domestica I've ever seen #arachtober

Riri the barn funnel weaver doing their power stance #arachtober

For #arachtober 22nd here is Cocoa Bean the false widow doing her evening chores

Meet Caramel, the prettiest cellar spider I've ever seen. I found him dangling from the middle of my bedroom ceiling by a thread. I've never seen a cellar spider hanging out in the open like this before. He stayed there for a few hours, and by morning he had moved on 🧳 #arachtober

A pretty grass spider hanging out on the exterior of my house for #arachtober

For #arachtober 18th I would like to share someone very special to me: my pet false widow, Acorn, who is finally starting to look like a real spider after three molts in my care!

Update! Coco is catching fruit flies and settling in well. Their web is so thin it's invisible, making it appear as if they can float in mid-air 🧚

For #arachtober 15th I present an update on the population of Tegenaria living in my basement. On the left is Lala, who lives above a switch, and on the right is Riri, who lives next to a door. I now know four of my basement funnel weavers. Lala and Riri are small and still have growing to do.

For #arachtober the 13th my very patient family took me to look for Meta ovalis in Bruce's Caves and I was not disappointed

An #arachtober bathtub rescue! Just a little baby, probably a young Tegenaria domestica. I am calling them Coco. Coco is now in a deli cup with lots of hiding places and a q-tip for water. Hopefully they make a web so I can give them some food!

For #arachtober the 10th I would like to share my buddy Miles, the tan jumping spider who lived in my bathroom over the summer. He loved fruit flies, organic apples, and standing on vertical surfaces facing upside down.

Kiki's web looks like it's covered in glitter ✨

For #arachtober the 9th I would like to share some crab spiders having lunch

Mimi always looks like she's trying to put on a shirt that's too small for her

Last night's #arachtober sightings! I went to visit Mimi, my barn funnel weaver friend, and was also treated to a yellow sac spider. It's been a warm fall and my household spiders have been very active.

This is Reverend Oreo, an Eastern parson spider (Herpyllus ecclesiasticus).

Happy #arachtober the fifth from the bold jumping spider I found outside the bank

Cleopatra, AKA Cleo, is the common house spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum) who lives on my porch in a large web full of her many children. I think she is probably wealthy by spider standards, so she needed a queenly name. #arachtober

This is Noir, the false widow living under my basement stairs, doing her best impression of a black widow. Probably Steatoda borealis. I love the little white crescent on these spiders 🌒 #arachtober

Good morning! Can I interest anyone in a cup of tea? #arachtober

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I was greeted at the door by this lovely Bassaniana when I got home from work today. I assume he is out promoting #arachtober

I visited this Northern Crab Spider on their flower at the Owen Sound Arboretum ☀️ #spidersky

This is the largest cellar spider I have ever seen. It feels like I have encountered an old god. I wish I could have taken a lateral picture so you could fully appreciate the largeness. Perhaps this spider is getting ready to lay eggs, or simply full of arcane secrets.

Meet Mimi, who lives at the top of my basement stairs. She is thriving indoors in my Southern Ontario home and has beautiful bands on her legs, so I feel confident in saying she is a Tegenaria domestica. #spidersky

I did not find these spiders at home (sadly), but they are the spiders who reignited my arachnid obsession, so I am honouring them with my first post. Meet Meta ovalis, the Eastern Cave Long-jawed spider. Found in Greig's Caves in Lion's Head, Ontario.