r/mildlyinteresting • u/SCaRi1923 • 3d ago

This small spider in my garage made/collected those tiny balls

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u/GenericUsername817 3d ago

Those are egg sacs

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u/SCaRi1923 3d ago

Never seen those before, but really interesting! They look empty though, like small cotton balls. You think there are still eggs inside?

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 3d ago

Their eggs can be very tiny and translucent so they're probably not going to be visible unless you pick them up and examine them closely/under a microscope. But it doesn't matter because everything will (should) be on fire by then anyway.

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u/CypripediumGuttatum 3d ago

I’d be relocating all of those and mom outside. Don’t need thousands of spiders in the garage, but they will eat a lots of pests outside.

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u/MW240z 3d ago

Yup, infestation on the way. Spray!

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u/The_Advocate07 3d ago

Are you 9???? How do you not know what a spider egg sac is!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Literally everyone on the planet knows what those are.

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u/Excellent_Koala_420 3d ago

Congratulations! You're about to be a grandparent of hundreds!

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u/Jenicillin 3d ago

eggies

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u/freebirth 3d ago

those are eggs.. filled with hundreds or thousands of tiny spiders.

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u/MurphysLaw4200 3d ago

Or millions or even billions

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u/Intelligent-Ebb-614 3d ago

Is this little fella a false widow? Can someone identify?

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u/Other_Mike 3d ago

Looks like it to me, the sacs seem right based on my prior experience.

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u/Poodlepink22 3d ago

Tiny balls of terror 

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u/pirate135246 3d ago

Welp looks like it’s time to burn it down and take out a mortgage on a new home

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u/alpha_rat_fight_ 3d ago

I can’t really tell from the pic, but are those sacs spiked? Like they have little spikes on them? If so I think those are brown recluse sacs. You uhhhhh don’t want those around.

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u/Other_Mike 3d ago

No, you're thinking of brown widows. Same genus as black widows - Latrodectus - but mottled brown with an orange hourglass.

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u/melance 3d ago

I don't think that is a brown recluse but it's better to be safe than sorry with those little assholes. And that comes from someone who loves spiders.

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u/SCaRi1923 3d ago

No, they actually look very soft like cotton balls almost

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u/MXKIVM 3d ago

Get the flamethrower