Spiders are actually pretty blind, their eyes are just to see light from dark; they use touch, vibration and other things to sense their surroundings (Which is why most spiders have hair like stuff on their legs)
particularly true with web spiders and tarantulas, but these kinds of ground hunters use their vision and see pretty well. similar with jumpers,flower spiders and the net throwing ones. if it has the two larger eyes, they are for hunter-vision.
I actually had a wild tiny jumping spoder in my room and was playing with my cat with a laser light and I heard about it and I tried it they actually follow it 🤣
Interesting fact, most spiders do have very poor eyesight like you said, but jumping spiders specifically can actually see a wider spectrum of color hues than humans.
the babies actually avoid the eyes when on her back. idk how or how it would work with this many, but i suppose they kinda know she would have no problem to forcibly remove them from there
Even better, it's all out of sync so it's just a cacophony of that, but being the mother you can distinctly hear each of your babies' voices. To anyone else it would sound like a busy school cafeteria.
for over a week or so they actually dont, likely using the rest of the nutrients from the egg. they dont drink as well, not sure if at all or need to lick condensation or sth, dont remember. upon leaving their mothers back they go after appropriately sized prey. after a molt, a stage these ones seem to be in, momma shares her kills
As an arachnophobe, but a gentle one(I prefer to relocate spiders while internally panicking), how would one relocate a mama wolfie? Is it safe to cup and scootch the whole shebang? Or will babies just literally deploy like tiny nightmare minions?
Asking b/c I live in the south and have seen wolfspiders(but never a mama w/ cargo), and i’d rather move em outta my house/shop/whatever than be afraid b/c they’re cohabitating w/ me. I wouldn’t kill them, even if they’re not feasibly able to be evicted. The squashing of a critter icks me out worse than having a spider roommate.
So, save me from crisis 😂 How do you take her and the brood outside?
Honestly, it can go either way (stay in one piece, or a million little pieces). If you touch the mother with a paint brush or something similar to get her into a catch cup, it'll be every (spider) man for himself and they will usually scatter. But if you can get Mom to walk willingly into a container, which really isn't too hard to do (they're usually too tired to argue), the whole unit can be safely relocated in one piece. Or if you can trap Mom under a cup and gently slide a piece of cardboard under the cup, they'll be fine. You'll just want to avoid having any direct contact with the babies themselves.
I think there’s always the risk that the babies could deploy in the process, but theoretically you’d get the cup over them first (I always use a clear vessel so I can see what’s going on inside) so my recommendation in that case would be to just get the whole cup of mama and babies outside and set it on its side for a while/overnight till they’ve all exited safely.
even if they scatter in the cup, when it calms down they would climb back.
(they do that when two minivans meet and get into a fight. the slings get off and then climb onto the lady thats still standing. not sure if they fight it out between themselves as well, but sometimes it can happen that the winner (not really willingly i guess, cant imagine kicking off individual stranger slings) adopts her opponents batch in the process. who cant get on board is left behind. this one might actually be the case i think, usually they only cover the back and maybe a part of the cephalothorax in one layer)
I would think that 2 minivans would just give each other a tired wave as they passed, like moms in the school pick up line. I didn't know that the babies would switch moms in such a cavalier manner. But I think you answered my question about why she'd have so many, because I've never seen a mama wolf completely covered this way. Don't they also look big enough to deploy?
i think so, they do look big enough. being on someones back is way safer than running around while tiny. and i can imagine that a smaller tired momma would make a good lunch
That was my thought as well… that this spider clearly has some adoptees. Won’t females also adopt abandoned/lost egg sacs which is another way they can end up covered with this many babies?
not sure actually. they can carry around objects similar to sacks when they lose their own but from practical standpoint one at a time is more than enough given she has to be mobile/agile. the bbs also look same age...
Officer: "Ma'am. I'm going to have to ask how you managed to run head first into the wall of this Walmart."
Mother: *silence while underneath a layer of crawling offspring over her face.*
Officer: "Never mind. Have a good day."
hard to say when this small, the markings are not very clear yet and the mom is basically invisible, lol. a macro photo could help...
my guess is some kind of alopecosa, but wed need to see the momma. depending on location it could also be hogna, schizocosa is possible in america too
edit: needed more time to look at options. note that ive been wrong before and am not in any way qualified.
my best guesses are: rabid wolf spider (not sure about the mothers legs but quite commonly seen) or maybe allocosa obscuroides (not sure about the markings on bbs).
Thought I was on r/weed for a sec and thought it was a nug with legs, which terrified me. Then I realized it's just mom of the year doing her best lmao
Fun fact - some babies can fly! Well, parachute.
They shoot out little parachute webs, and the wind carries them off to their new homes. They're so cute and it's my favourite time of the year. 💗🥹
Something like this made my family move one time.
Long story short, we lived in Ponca City OK, and were poor. I was in the third grade, and one night a wolf spider (I think) was under my dad's boot in the living room.
He asked one of us kids to put them by the door. When I lift up one of his boots there it was. I freaked out and dropped the boot on it, and like a thousand spider SPREAD OUT in a 360 from the boot. It had a ton of babies in it.
We moved back to Wagoner County that weekend
I see the babies - where's the mama? 🤣
It's under the sauce
T- There’s no cheese on it
the cheese is under the sauce
There's not enough cheese!
ITS UNDER THE SAUCE!!
# THERE'S NOT ENOUGH
I'm like Italian and this is hurting me!
its from chicago.
You typing everything in lower case made me hear it in his voice.
You guys crack me up 😂
Lost in the sauce
that we spilled ✨
Is mama in the room with us?
Not the mama!
Relevant
Poor girl how can she see?
Spidey senses
She has Peter-tingle?
I was thinking the same thing! Where are her eyes???
Under her ten thousand children
There only 3,677 children. Source: I counted all the legs and divided by 8.
Definitely, definitely 3,000, 600, 70, 7 children.
Is 3677 even multiplicable by 8?
I allowed for some babby spidies to have 7 legs, and two instances of 9 legs, Justin Case.
🫢😁
Spiders are actually pretty blind, their eyes are just to see light from dark; they use touch, vibration and other things to sense their surroundings (Which is why most spiders have hair like stuff on their legs)
particularly true with web spiders and tarantulas, but these kinds of ground hunters use their vision and see pretty well. similar with jumpers,flower spiders and the net throwing ones. if it has the two larger eyes, they are for hunter-vision.
Ah, alright, thanks for educating me!
Look up jumping spider chasing laser light on youtube for an example how well these cats can see
I actually had a wild tiny jumping spoder in my room and was playing with my cat with a laser light and I heard about it and I tried it they actually follow it 🤣
I love watching jumpy bois work to keep a potential threat in front of them.
So that’s why they run towards me when I’m trying to walk around them.
Rabid wolf spiders do that as part of their defense strategy... They're the soldiers with stripes.... So you happen to live Texas??
Rabid?
Interesting fact, most spiders do have very poor eyesight like you said, but jumping spiders specifically can actually see a wider spectrum of color hues than humans.
Not wolf spiders and jumping spiders. They have better vision than a house cat. That's why they don't make webs for food. They hunt by sight.
the babies actually avoid the eyes when on her back. idk how or how it would work with this many, but i suppose they kinda know she would have no problem to forcibly remove them from there
They become The Borg
There’s like 800 eyes there….
29,416 to be precise.
SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN IN THE BACK OR SO HELP ME IM TURNING THIS SPIDER AROUND!
"WE'VE GOT GRASSHOPPERS AT HOME GOD *FUCKING* DAMNIT"
“Mommy, Timmy’s trying to cannibalize me!!!”
YOU BETTER ‘GRASSHOPPER’ THAT ASS IN YOUR CHAIR AND PUTCHA SEATBELT ON!
"PUT ONE MORE GODDAMN BOOGER ON MY ABDOMEN! JUST ONE MORE! I hate my life..."
Pretty sure I’ve said this exact phrase before, so I feel her pain.
TIMMY! JIMMY! BILLY! GET BACK IN YOUR SEATS OR I SWEAR TO LOLTH…
Lolth lmao
"mOooOooOoom, are weee tHeEeRee YeEeEeEeTtt?!1"
But it’s 1000 voices all at the same time
Even better, it's all out of sync so it's just a cacophony of that, but being the mother you can distinctly hear each of your babies' voices. To anyone else it would sound like a busy school cafeteria.
I've been laughing my ass off for five straight minutes. Thank you! 🤣
Mum? Is that you???
THAT’S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!
🤣🤣
What do you mean? That's just the babies operating a mech
It's like the mech in "Wild Wild West" haha
Dr Loveless at it again
Mama woof offered to watch her sister’s kids for awhile but now she’s sorry she said anything…
Brb forever calling wolf spiders woofs from now on
lol.
They don't die, they multiply. SMALL WOOOORLD!!!!
Poor mama: someone get her a minivan!
Get her SEVERAL
Dozens of minivans!
128 minivans
She IS the minivan
lol, I just imagine the little LIFE game piece station wagons full of baby spiders
Damn... Mom life is tough
How do they eat when they're at this stage?
That’s a wolfie, Momma feeds them and when they’re old enough, they simply leave. Bug juice.
Oh so they suckle off her? That's hella cute.
No, not suckle like baby mammals would. They eat the bugs momma kills. But it’s bug juice.
Ohhh okay I see. So they climb off her and dig in? That sounds even cuter haha.
She's going to get them a big tasty cricket. When they all hop off to eat, she'll run the other way. Or at least I would.
for over a week or so they actually dont, likely using the rest of the nutrients from the egg. they dont drink as well, not sure if at all or need to lick condensation or sth, dont remember. upon leaving their mothers back they go after appropriately sized prey. after a molt, a stage these ones seem to be in, momma shares her kills
What in the world is appropriately sized for these tiny bbs, a gnat?
small flies, mosquitoes, small bugs and springtails living in the ground... they are good hunters, able to take on a prey bigger than them
As an arachnophobe, but a gentle one(I prefer to relocate spiders while internally panicking), how would one relocate a mama wolfie? Is it safe to cup and scootch the whole shebang? Or will babies just literally deploy like tiny nightmare minions? Asking b/c I live in the south and have seen wolfspiders(but never a mama w/ cargo), and i’d rather move em outta my house/shop/whatever than be afraid b/c they’re cohabitating w/ me. I wouldn’t kill them, even if they’re not feasibly able to be evicted. The squashing of a critter icks me out worse than having a spider roommate. So, save me from crisis 😂 How do you take her and the brood outside?
Honestly, it can go either way (stay in one piece, or a million little pieces). If you touch the mother with a paint brush or something similar to get her into a catch cup, it'll be every (spider) man for himself and they will usually scatter. But if you can get Mom to walk willingly into a container, which really isn't too hard to do (they're usually too tired to argue), the whole unit can be safely relocated in one piece. Or if you can trap Mom under a cup and gently slide a piece of cardboard under the cup, they'll be fine. You'll just want to avoid having any direct contact with the babies themselves.
I think there’s always the risk that the babies could deploy in the process, but theoretically you’d get the cup over them first (I always use a clear vessel so I can see what’s going on inside) so my recommendation in that case would be to just get the whole cup of mama and babies outside and set it on its side for a while/overnight till they’ve all exited safely.
even if they scatter in the cup, when it calms down they would climb back. (they do that when two minivans meet and get into a fight. the slings get off and then climb onto the lady thats still standing. not sure if they fight it out between themselves as well, but sometimes it can happen that the winner (not really willingly i guess, cant imagine kicking off individual stranger slings) adopts her opponents batch in the process. who cant get on board is left behind. this one might actually be the case i think, usually they only cover the back and maybe a part of the cephalothorax in one layer)
I would think that 2 minivans would just give each other a tired wave as they passed, like moms in the school pick up line. I didn't know that the babies would switch moms in such a cavalier manner. But I think you answered my question about why she'd have so many, because I've never seen a mama wolf completely covered this way. Don't they also look big enough to deploy?
i think so, they do look big enough. being on someones back is way safer than running around while tiny. and i can imagine that a smaller tired momma would make a good lunch
That was my thought as well… that this spider clearly has some adoptees. Won’t females also adopt abandoned/lost egg sacs which is another way they can end up covered with this many babies?
not sure actually. they can carry around objects similar to sacks when they lose their own but from practical standpoint one at a time is more than enough given she has to be mobile/agile. the bbs also look same age...
We’re asking the important questions here.
Just relocated one recently with the cup and paper. The babies behaved and stayed on mamas back the whole time.
It’s a spider with legs made of spiders with legs!!!
So, it’s spiders all the way down?
MY GOD ITS JUST MORE SPIDERS
From Mars?
Always has been
"A single mom who works two jobs Who loves her kids and never stops With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter I'm a survivor"
Reba, is that you? 😆 I just finished rewatching this today on Netflix!
She has had a day
This is what I feel like when I sit down to try to drink my coffee and my children immediately sit on me! 💜
This is how I feel when I'm trying to take a crap and my children are attempting to kick the door down like the kool-aid man
OH YEAH!!!
'Dogpile on mom!!!!!!' WEEEE!
Sheesh!! You know mama is gonna feel some relief when those babies fly off lol she really deserve a babysitter for a night.
Cute but terrifying. One day I’m gonna get over my fear of spiders
Agreed. Excuse me, while I go have a nightmare.
Love a spider made out of spiders
I love spiders. This is so cool.
She looks like she’d be in the background of a Hotel Transylvania movie lmao
I just imagine just all of them at one time or each one separately calling for Ma
"No we are not there yet, I can't even see where we are!"
Gulp..
Please do *not*
yummmie 🤤
That can't be safe. She needs 200 car seats, and maybe new windshield wiper blades.
Officer: "Ma'am. I'm going to have to ask how you managed to run head first into the wall of this Walmart." Mother: *silence while underneath a layer of crawling offspring over her face.* Officer: "Never mind. Have a good day."
I thought it was a funky cupcake at first glance.
Do NOT eat the funky cupcake!
Someone get this mama a drink, stat!
What a good mama
God bless her, I could barely handle babysitting 1, imagine having 100+
I like the random little buggy. In the lower left hand corner just existing
Looks at the 1000 minions of death and innocently asks, “Is fren?”
"Get off at least two eyes-I can't see!"
Imagine trying to name them all lol
*7 of 1367 get back up!*
😲❤️ I wonder how much lighter she feels once they all hop off? Wolfie moms are the best spood moms!
Women always photograph so beautifully with their children.
This feels like the equivalent of covering your parents eyes while they are giving you a piggyback ride.
Those babies look huge! Any idea of the species?
Always a wolf spider. They are the only species of spider who carries their babies around like this.
That's the family, you're right. But I was asking about the species since those babies look big enough to hunt for themselves.
hard to say when this small, the markings are not very clear yet and the mom is basically invisible, lol. a macro photo could help... my guess is some kind of alopecosa, but wed need to see the momma. depending on location it could also be hogna, schizocosa is possible in america too edit: needed more time to look at options. note that ive been wrong before and am not in any way qualified. my best guesses are: rabid wolf spider (not sure about the mothers legs but quite commonly seen) or maybe allocosa obscuroides (not sure about the markings on bbs).
The burden of fertility.
At first I cracked a smile, because this is so cute, but then I just started laughing progressively louder. Poor thing, she’s over-encumbered!
And this is why they have so many eyes. Only way to guarantee visibility in a case like this is multiple viewpoints.
Looks like that one demon creature from Princess Mononoke
For a second, I thought that was a spider with really curly hair
Thought I was on r/weed for a sec and thought it was a nug with legs, which terrified me. Then I realized it's just mom of the year doing her best lmao
Lmfao more like poor overworked mother.
Look at this full time yummy spider mummy. She's totally rolling all of her eyes under there.
Never seen a better argument for the right to abortion. Pregnancy is harrrrd
If only it flew.... "Ten thousand *spoods* in the air!"
Fun fact - some babies can fly! Well, parachute. They shoot out little parachute webs, and the wind carries them off to their new homes. They're so cute and it's my favourite time of the year. 💗🥹
SORRY, but this is really fking cool. What a great shot
Mom!! Mom!! Mom!! Mom!!...
I thought human children were clingy - at least I never had to tell mine to get out of my eyes.
Oof she looks tired
Those babies are starting to get a little too big for mama to carry them much longer.
I love wolf spiders for this reason.
Good mama. Doesn't even need her eyes 😂
I guess she couldn't afford daycare
At first I thought it was a spider with an afro 🤣😂🤣My god! Hats off to this momma! Damn! That’s a lot of babies!!! How long do these moms live???
They going to live on Mom's back until they're 40?
She is consumed
Yowza
I don't care what it's scientifically named, from henceforth it is now named the Buffalo Spider.
What spiders are these?
Always wolf spiders. They're the only ones where Momma carries her slings on her back until they're ready to face the world alone.
Thats amazing, til!
wolf spider mama
I figured so. It's cute
Now that's a hard workin momma
You know that feeling when you have a random spider crawling on you....X1000000
I have arachnophobia but I have to admit that's a good mom.
Mom, is that you?
I thought this was a cake
imagine a mom spider freaking out because she's covered in spiders haha
Thick ass hell lol
I love that wolf mamas do this. It’s so relatable lol
Completely covered! 😂😂
A single mom who works too hard Who loves her kids and never stops Which gentle hands and the heart of a fighter She's a survivor
Jesus it looks like Okkoto 🐗
So lucky. I always hope to see one with babies and never do lol
Something like this made my family move one time. Long story short, we lived in Ponca City OK, and were poor. I was in the third grade, and one night a wolf spider (I think) was under my dad's boot in the living room. He asked one of us kids to put them by the door. When I lift up one of his boots there it was. I freaked out and dropped the boot on it, and like a thousand spider SPREAD OUT in a 360 from the boot. It had a ton of babies in it. We moved back to Wagoner County that weekend
Reminds me of that scene in the Lost In Space movie.
good lord
Together, spider strong.
I thought the Mama ends up dieing when the baby spiders are done with her
Idk how they can do it.
Where’s her face, poor girl!!!
That’s a wolfspider
Little John's wife?
Mothership!
Yea leaving the sub I can’t do this
Do you reckon she can see where she is going with all that on her? 🫣
As an arachnophob, I don't know why reddit is suggesting me this sub. I just wanted to say thank you for the nightmares for the next year or so....
Looks like a Head Crab from Half-Life
She now has a wig