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Found this nest outside my grandma’s house full of cute babys
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- Submitted: May 22, 2023
- Photographed: May 21, 2023
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Salem, Oregon, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: Yes
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This is crazy, I came here looking to identify the same baby spiders!! Just had an identical hatching on my basil plant on my porch. My location is Astoria, OR! Would also love to know what these are!
Idk… I was googling it and thought baby golden orb weavers, Argiope aurantia?
Edit: I found a second nest outside my house and it was much bigger but the picture was not very good. If they are what I think they are, thiese spiders are the baby version of spiders that I see alot in my garden. They are good for your garden as they eat pests.
They are baby orbweavers. Genus Araneus looks similar to this as hatchlings. Baby spiders are tricky, they don’t look like their parents and their isn’t many confirmed images for comparison. They might balloon to new places when the atmospheric conditions are right. Baby spiders can fly! I love that fact! There are ballooning videos on YouTube. In some parts of the world it is called “spider rain” when they descend.
Thanks! The wind blew a couple times while I Was getting pictures and a few seemed like they were catching the wind and blowing away, and I got scared they would land on me. (:
Cool! When they sense the wind speed and electric charge is right they “tent,” which is standing with their butts in the air with silk hanging out. It’s not classy, but they fly for free.
yeah. my mom is making me move the nest. 🙁 i don’t want to do it because it sounds unsafe for the spiders, but do you have any tips for keeping the spiders safe or where to put them? i know it would be much better to leave them, but i doubt my mom would let them live as she is very afraid of spiders. she taught me when i was little not to be afraid of spiders so i could kill them for her but it backfired and they are my favorite animals 🙂 edit: the nest she is… Read more »
Thank you for rescuing them! I do that when I know a spider is on the property of a bug murder. With people with a phobia it is best to do what you’re doing, calmly move the critters away and have the person see you removing them. They don’t need to know the relocation location. I married into an arachnophobic family. You have to move the spiders on shrubbery?! Aww geez…. I don’t recognize the plant, are you allowed to prune it? I would prune the nest branches and put them loosely into a barrel to move them. You probably… Read more »
thanks so much! i will try to move it after school today (my mom also says i can prune it)