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.
Those are NOT yellow sac spiders.
I came across your post because just yesterday, an identical little yellow spider was crawling on my sleeve and I'm on the hunt to figure what it was.
In reality they are baby Garden Spiders. Just google it.
Awesome! Thanks for the information. They sure were cute! I haven't come across a bunch of baby spiders like this since then, but maybe I haven't been looking at the right time.
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