The things that I thought were grains of pollen were actually baby spiders, about a millimeter and a half long. Each was golden yellow with a black spot on the abdomen, the rear section.
On closer inspection of the photos, the black spots appear to be spinnerets, and the spiders' eyes appear to be red - some of them, anyway.
I don't know what variety of spider these spiderlings will grow into. Most of them are fated not to grow up at all. Life is harsh for little spiderlings.
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FABULOUS photos! I'm so jealous.
Did you know that one of the Nero Wolfe novels is entitled "The Golden Spiders"?? (You might at that.)
Heh. I didn't, actually!
Not only that, but it was the first novel turned into a teleplay for the A&E series with Timothy Hutton and Maury Chaykin. Those were damned good; if you've never seen them, I recommend you do.
911! Call Markie!
Don, these are Mark's competitors!
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'The Golden Spiderlings'
I was going to say, before seeing the other comments: 'Hey, I think I read that one..!!'
Spiders do not creep me out ...too much anyway.
But I think I would be unpleasantly surprised if I came upon something like that inside my house without warning.
Good thing those were outside ...cool there.
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:) Yellow-sac spiders. Those things can leave some nasty bites!
Yellow-sac's are 5-10mm, these are 1-1.5mm.
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