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the roommates being 2 (3?) different cellar spiders in my bedroom. my smoke detector woke me up doing its bullshit EoL beep and when I was shining my flashlight at it trying to see if it had an indicator light on, I noticed this huge ass singular strand of web stretching from the corner where the smoke detector is mounted to the corner where my bed is.

Now I've been aware I've had at least one cellar spider companion for awhile now, since there's a giant molt husk of one in an abandoned web in the obnoxiously high ceiling of my closet but I assumed it died since I hadn't noticed any more webs pop up in my closet.

Anyways, I got a broom to clean the web and noticed the spider clinging to my wall. Terrified of the giant. Anyways I left him or her be but decimated their web. But lo and behold, on the other side of that singular strand - above my bed - was another cellar spider clinging to the wall. I am so confused at what they're eating though because the ground is clean and I did not see anything in their webs besides a single gnat. Whatever the case, I hope they do not retaliate for me destroying their homes but I didn't like seeing the giant shadow of a web across my ceiling when I was disconnecting the smoke detector.

Anyways here are two pics

The one above my bed:

the one near my smoke detector (i genuinely think it was posing with its legs because wtf why did it straighten them out like that. surely it was just saying "hiii skeleton-wave )

what should i name them. I'm thinking Rosa & Lenin because clearly they are comrades and I have to assume the one with the crazy long legs is a lady

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Spiders are pretty cool as long as they stay on the ceiling.

Hope they make a thousand little spider babies.

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I had a spider at my desk for the past 3 weeks. Named the little fella and everything. I haven't seen him in 2 days :(

I normally hate bugs but he kept me company and would poke out every morning to say hi.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

niko-wonderous Can you tell what kind of spiders they are?

[-] abc@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Small bodied cellar spiders

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

hiiiiiii spiders!

[-] Zoift@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I am so confused at what they're eating though because the ground is clean and I did not see anything in their webs besides a single gnat.

They dont need to eat much, adapted from cave spiders. They also drop prey from their webs, and dont eat the old webs when they move on. So theres a good chance theres bug carcasses you missed in another spot, or cleaned up ages ago.

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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