🕷️Tristan (he/him)🏳️⚧️
@spidersathome.bsky.social
I watch my household spiders and give them silly names. Follow me to see pictures of them in the trashy corners of my old, half-renovated Ontario farmhouse.
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
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Please look at this absolutely stunning Steatoda triangulosa I found at work. She looks like a Rorschach test. #spidersky
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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
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is what it looks like in my basement
Even more reasons to love Tegenaria domestica phys.org/news/2025-11...
Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...
phys.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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 💤)
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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say thank you to a spider in your life
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
say thank you to a spider in your life
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
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just the tiniest baby T. domestica I've ever seen #arachtober
Riri the barn funnel weaver doing their power stance #arachtober
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Riri the barn funnel weaver doing their power stance #arachtober
For #arachtober 22nd here is Cocoa Bean the false widow doing her evening chores
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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!
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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 🧚
October 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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.