Daddy Long Legs | Cellar Spiders in Your Home
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2023
- Cellar spiders (Pholcus phalangioides) are common inside houses and they’re often called “daddy-long legs”. But cellar spiders are not the only organisms referred to as “daddy-long legs”. What are the recognizable characters for cellar spiders? Why do those spiders make weird vibrating movements (gyration) when you disturb them or touch their web? And why is it a good idea to keep them in your house?
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The rarely bite thing is an understatement... they refuse to bite you unless literally not given any choice to escape. They don't have time to lower their bodies to bite when it won't do much so they'd rather run away
Good point! My spiders are so used to me that they don't even bother to gyrate anymore when I touch their web! :))
spiders.... creepy crawlies but also one of the greatest living insect repellents to ever exist!
I agree! :)
Not all spiders are the same though. I'm not afraid of pholcidae even though I am arachnophobic. In fact I *want* pholcidae in my home because they hunt the house spiders who make me react so badly.
@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim Then you're not arachnophobic
@@DangerManQ Ohh I expect you are more qualified than the specialist who diagnosed me then................
Perhaps you could explain why I couldn't put my hand on a colour picture of a spider, not even if someone offered me £1000 to do so . The very thought of it makes me feel sick.
But as you say, I'm not arachnophobic 🤔
@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim Then how are you not afraid of cellar spiders? Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders lol
They are constantly decorating my house for haloween with their webs.
Halloween all year round? :)
Yep!
@@natureclearly
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I love them.
I saved one in my shower this morning…picked her up and she was very grateful. I know because after scooping her up I put her on my towel rack to dry off, and finished showering. Then, I reached for the towel and SHE was there. Wow, I put my finger out and she touched my finger, smelled her leg, and claimed on. Lovely! Ticketed me as she ran around before I put my finger out, and she HIGH FIVED me with her leg again!😊
Whenever I see one of these in my home, I just leave it alone cause I know it won’t go anywhere
We have these in our home and they helpful! We go out of our way to ensure they survive. Great Video! I love your work, glad I found you on RUclips.
That's so nice to hear that you make sure the spiders stay around. :) I'm happy you're enjoying the content. Thank you! ♥
Saw one of these guys this morning walk along my bathroom wall up to the corner and just kind of go about it business and i was sure to give to give it the ole "Top of the morning to ya!"
I've been watching a drawn-out battle between a determined cellar spider and a false widow in my kitchen. The false widow is holed up in a corner of the ceiling. The cellar spider has constructed his much larger web around the false widow and keeps trying to lure him out. They take occasional jabs at each other, then retreat a few inches and wait to see who will make the next move. Like a spider version of the enemy at the gates. Im definition rooting for the cellar spider
In the UK we call Crane Flies Daddy Long Legs.
Do you use that name for cellar spiders as well?
@@natureclearlyI've never heard of Cellar spiders here being referred to that name here.
Since leaving my last residence and moving into a new one I had never seen Cellar spiders before, or I didn't notice them at least. In my last residence I saw plenty of House Spiders and Giant House Spiders. I was taught from a very early age not to fear them. However, spiders I don't recognise or I have searched up and look familiar to ones that you don't want to be bitten by, like false widows, I take outside.
I have at least one in every room. The only thing I do is clean up old unused webs now and again.
Very informative video
Thank you
One of my cellar spiders caught and feasted upon another spider, 6 times the size of her! It was very impressive.
Cellar spiders are the most friendly, u got to remember, they have the most potent venom but they cant bite us cuz their mouths are too small but they still can destroy even a black widow
@@ybgglxcky2546 That's actually just a myth. The cellar spider's venom is quite weak. However, they are capable of trapping other insects and spiders in their webbing to an extremely impressive degree, coupled with the fact that their legs are longer than most spiders; both them a huge advantage in being able to take down insects larger and tougher than themselves.
I have a family of them in a corner in my shed I do my weed smoking in and they take care of any flies that get in so I love them. One day I alley ooped a fly into the big web with a swatter and I feel like we bonded
noice story mate, i feel that from a common smoker 👍
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These guys are little sweeties. I love them.
Sometimes I get them in my house, cellar, spiders, daddy long legs
I always told my younger brother, don't kill the spiders in the house.
There are two types of Cellar spiders; one with a round abdomen, and one with the elongated abdomen.
We currently have a large female with an egg sac in our house. I was fascinated by her, as a few weeks ago she caught a house spider the same size as her, and ate it! My parents wanted to get rid of her and her egg sac but I convinced them to let her stay.
They are welcome guests in my home, they eat nasty biting things and silverfish and do no harm just a once a year thorough dusting sessions clears away any excess cobwebs.
ever since i got my bathroom removed the cellar spider nation has just decided to declare war on my house
Just had one on my arm with a egg sack, it now outside. We have a spider infestation as we live near a canal and there is also a bunch of Crain flies. Can’t stand any of them. I don’t kill them but jeez, it takes a year for theses things to grow and I swear they seem to stay hidden till there old enough to just walk around your house like they own it.
I found a brown recluse in my apartment a few years back and learned that cellar spiders are prolific hunters of pests, including brown recluses. Cellar spiders are now welcome to stay near front door and eat all the brown recluses they want.
I've also made the connection that if I'm finding cellar spiders lingering around my apartment, I have enough unwelcome guests I didn't know about lingering that are keeping it fed. If there weren't enough bugs and spiders to eat there, it would have left. So again, it's free to stay here.
That's fantastic to hear you actually purposefully used them as pest control! Are they going after the brown recluses? Have you ever seen them eating one?
Gratitude for explaining this! I have two spiders, now I know are these Ceiling spiders. I enjoy and now also realize their benefits!
Daddy longlegs, or harvestmen, are familiar Missouri animals. They are not spiders, but opilionids. Unlike spiders, they have a fused body form and lack silk and venom glands. In harvestmen, the body is a simple oval, and it's usually hard to tell where the “head” ends and the segmented “abdomen” begins.
I like you , you see the harmony of nature and the benifits. Though with my place they are everywhere and its not one but thousands multiplying.all over the yard .
There's one that lives behind the toilet in the bathroom and I wave to him every time I go in there. I've always thought they were cute.
This is very informative! is consistent with other cellar spider information I have researched on top of some things I didn’t know. Thanks for the video!
Happy to hear you learned something new! 🤗
Gyration is done to mimic the actions of other spiders, which causes prey sensation within the web, resulting in the spider under the illusion that there is food nearby.
wonderfull video, the detailed view of spider making his bentobox was amazing❤
They bites you rarely when you trigger them
I live in Central Asia and when I moved from a city to the countryside last autumn, I was taken aback by the number of these spiders at my new home. I had to get rid of them initially, but slowly I started to accept our neighborhood. And now I feel much more relaxed around them, although still don't like waking up and seeing one above my bed - luckily, that happens seldom.
I keep them around and look at them. I few months or weeks ago there was one with an egg sack. I've been following it every day.
Seeing momma spider carrying was so cool.
First they hatched. Bunch of babies in the web. They slowly strated to disappear. Few of the spiders slowly got bitter by eating their siblings I think. Now there are like 5 left.
It’s such a beautiful experiment. My husband and I have gotten to see two females with egg sacs, and we also had to protect these females from another daddy long legs. I came up looking to meet with her. I mean this mama was fighting with her babies in her mouth, but we brought him out here so she didn’t have to deal with that. And then I noticed that this guy was persistent so we brought him out here because we have several he was happy because he made it with my girl Charlotte. She sleeps above me every night and it’s so beautiful.
Isn't it incredibly rewarding to watch them carefully and up close? I'm glad you're getting to observe females with egg sacs! Have they hatched yet? We regularly have females with egg sacs in our home and I enjoy the moment the little spiderlings hatch!
I get them a lot in the apartment, mainly in my bathroom… above the tub, on the corner ceiling… I’ve seen one on each corner before, I just get a broom, lift them, and flush them down the toilet.. they are in my den, around my cats litter box, I leave them alone there, because they kill the roaches.. I’ve got them in the kitchen, they kill roaches there too… I found out they come in from the plumbing!
We have them in our house, and they are very welcome here! They do a great job of pest control, often killing unwanted spiders. I've had the opportunity to watch a mother spider carry her egg sac, and hope to again soon... at the moment, I have a huge female being approached by an interested male.
I'm happy to hear about yet another household that welcomes cellar spiders! 🤗 they can be incredible helpers.
Did you get to see the hatched spider babies? It's an amazing sight!
Thanks
These spiders are a mess. I don’t know how often they create a new web structure (mess), but they will cover your whole garage inside within a month.
I witnessed one of these actually chasing down a giant house spider on its own web. Once it got a hold of the house spider they both fell down from my ceiling to the floor where the daddy long legs waited for the venom to kick in after it’s attack. Part of me wanted to save the house spider but it meant the other spider would go hungry after it’s efforts so I left them be. It really was awesome to see
It's amazing to watch isn't it? A much smaller cellar spider will do battle with a massive house spider and win.
If I hadn't seen this myself I wouldn't have believed it
I’m pretty sure I’ve witnessed one in the act of killing its mate before. Long time ago we had two of em that were in close proximity to each other in the corner of our den and one time they started attacking each other and He/she killed the other and literally began tying them up in the web. One of the only times I’ve ever witnessed such a thing.
Nature at its finest
We have a male spider in our bathroom. My daughter (9 yo) loves spiders and named him King Kit Kat. She has seen it eat a fly and a stink bug. We are happy to know he is harmless and useful. He is our pet spider 🕷!
Yes, they're in my bathroom. They likely hatched their kids near the hallway lights that turned on 24/7.
I don't mind these spiders in my basement except they make way too much web material and I have to clean up once in awhile to make things look a bit tidy.
Just made a new room mate, and i accidently made a loud noice, and she started to wobble and freak out
Take showers with a couple every day.
Same! 🤭
I have around 20 in my house and I have so many garden spiders i also have a nest of house spiders and we don't know where there coming from
That's a lot of spiders! What part of the world are you living in?
I have a few cellar spiders within my abode and I am usually quite happy to leave them be (I even name them). However, the other day I saw a cellar spider carrying an egg sac within its mouth. It was adorable but I simply couldn't allow 30 or so baba spiders to hatch within my home. I used a glass and a bit of cardboard to put the mama and her babas outside. I felt bad to be honest, but one has to draw the line in the sand at some point.
The cellar spider is one the best spiders you can have in your house. For example, it's during the summer and you have some annoying flies in your house. The #1 solution to rid your house of those annoying flying insects is this species of spider.
We have lots of them in our place. They actually will chase a fly that gets too close to the web, rally cool! I also put out a small piece of tomato, and they graze for a bit! I like them, I call them mom's pets!!
I wish i had these in my house, I have only seen 1, and my cat killed it! :( if I ever do find one wandering in my house though, I would gladly put it in a quiet corner and let it do it's thing!
I did ! Infact i wasn't the one disturbing a female was pist off at a male one trying to buy a drink or sumthing haha when i moved in my new room i found a mother and her egg sac i carefully moved them in a safe spot to keep em happy. I felt inlove at first sight
We have cellar spiders in our house. Now that I know what they do I think they can stay. They have never really bothered me but my wife does not like them.
oh i leave them i find them so intresting. i was previlage to see the round egg turning to lots of knobs and eventually the babies came out. it was amazing. their my first and only spiders that i trust lol
There are hundreds in my parents house in the country. We knock down the webs each week. They don't bother anyone except freaking out guests, and the cleaning lady. They migrates easily from one property to another by hitching a ride on an object.
I have like 9 near my front door 😩. I feel so bad but they gotta go lol. Im terrified of bugs
I used to be afraid of spiders but learning more about them, watching them closely and finding out about all their cool features helped me to overcome my fear. I hope it will lessen for you some day as well! 🤗
I too have them in my home, one in almost every room. I have watched them catch and destroy other annoying tiny flies. I definitely do not bother them and enjoy checking on them every day. And yes I have seen once that strange shaking action when I put my hand too close. Thank you for the information. Ontario Canada
It puts a smile on my face to know that not only you leave them unbothered but mainly that you enjoy observing them! :) We have so many in our home and it's fascinating to watch them over time, seeing them grow from little spiderlings, molting and becoming full-grown spiders.
I’ve seen these a lot in my old house. Now I just see a lot of jumping spiders when we keep the balcony doors open
We have many jumping spiders as well. Aren't they cute? Have you ever looked closely at their eyes?
@@natureclearlyI've seen a few around my home, but they're fairly uncommon unfortunately. They are truly fascinating though, their faces can be surprisingly expressive - and they're usually very curious and friendly.
Do they eat and recycle their webs? I like them and check on mine daily. They seem to move into each others webs. Maybe communal or mating
Pholcidae in the carport, black widows in the back, if only i could get these ones to discover the back!
:D :D You might try to move them there yourself. I tried to relocate them a couple of times in our home, but it's tricky because the cellar spiders really like to stay in one place!
@@natureclearly I'll see them in the exact same spot and pose for a week!
Nice spiders.
Should I just leave them with the egg sack? or should I draw a line with that? Shall I let them hatch in my home?
I have a few of them in my apartment currently, and have noticed them attacking roaches due to a roach problem.
Natural pest control!
They are the only spiders I allow to live in my house.
Same here! Well, small jumping spiders are ok as well...But once there are spiders that are either too big or too hairy (we've been getting many Steatodes nobilis recently) , I evacuate them from the house immediately! :)
I used to slaughter these things as a kid. Niw i feel like i owe them an apology...
I have a spider in my room. Been in the corner for a year now, idk if its male or female as i haven't checked. I just leave it be. I havent noticed other types of spider in my room, or insects, unless they're wrapped in its web.
Me, me. I have them throughout my house. I find they like to be close to water sources. I have put out drops of water for them and watched them drink them. ( did this for ladybugs and watched it climb on top.) I too have watched the giarations. I agree it is to either hide themselves from others or to move the web around to catch food. I did not know about the enzymes , but that is what it appeared to me that the treated their food like sippy bags. One thing I have observed is the abandoned exoskeletons. There for a while I thought they were cannibals and ate their own. I have watched a mother spider carry the egg sacks around and move thim into a "nursery " area. They are very helpful creatures.
I agree that they enjoy being around water! We have a whole Pholcus family living in our shower. It was doable to keep track of them until the babies emerged! :)) Good observations with the exoskeletons! They indeed look like dead bodies and if one doesn't know what's going on, it might be confusing.
Trying so hard to beat the fear against those especially caude they are in every house and I am sick of getting anxious of something so harmless and actually helpful.. help 🙃
I had one live in my bathroom last winter. Once I saw a second spider. Not really wanting an entire family in there, I decided to try to knock the smaller new spider down and release it somewhere else but as soon as I moved torwards them and took the new spiders attention, the original spider pounced on the other spider and ate it 😅
Like dang bro, I wasn't trying to do ya like that 😅
These spiders are quite interesting. In my country these spiders were 10-15 years ago a rare species. These days quite common. I have lots of 'em in my apartment, they keep the silver fishers on their toes. My wife didn't want them firstly, but now she is used to them, sometimes she even tries to get one of them on her hand sometimes with failure, since these spiders rather run away as far and fast as they can. I've even witnessed two of these spiders having an egg sags and giving birth to small mini spiders. And ye the gyration effect is funny to look at, I occasionally try to make em spin on their web just to "train" them :D. Only thing that is bothersome is that they like to get into our bedroom corners and walk around the wall sometimes. But I just relocate them to the kitchen instead. Also they are damn fast, so if you startle them they can run really fast and that's kinda creepy stuff. I've killed few of 'em on accident (hoovering and cleaning) and it always makes me feel kinda bad, these fellows are important creatures and only want to eat and help us.
I have a gazillion in my current house. It’s an older home. To me they are the most prominent pest, in warmer months I am bombarded by them. And I am bothered because they leave piles behind and yucky webs. In my case I’d rather spend a day with a fly swatted handy to kill houseflies than see these guys everywhere. Maybe I wouldn’t mind so much if they weren’t so prolific and messy. But there it is. I have noticed the gyrations also, I always thought it was because I jiggled the web but I guess it does look self induced.
Hi , I have possibly thousands of cellar spiders in my house , the ones in my bedroom have names , there's big Veronica and Vera , I've seen everything they do and I really do love them they eat giant house spiders I don't like them because they wander and they're aggressive , Veronica and Vera s eggs have just hatched , occasionally one of them will come down on a strand of web and stay near my face I'm sure they're there to say hello then they go back up to Thier massive web around my bedroom , they see me every day from birth they are not scared of me , the babies are cute , I love the mothers carrying her egg ball around with her , I heard they were called cave spiders a long time ago , thanks for showing your video .
Its also called "Trembling Spider". When you go closer to them they will tremble in their Web
That's right! Is it the name that you're used to using for Pholcus? I even heard people calling them "vibrating spiders".
@@natureclearly They are awesome. Even killing bigger Huntsmen and other Pests. Love them :)
I picked up one recently he was verry friendly he crawled onto me and he was on a side walk for some reason
DO NOT FORCEFULLY PICK ONE UP IF IT DOSENT WANT TO BE DONT DO IT
I used to be scared of daddy long legs
Are you not anymore? :)
I hate most other spiders but I’ll usually let these fellas go about their business in my house as they generally keep to themselves and tend to stay out of sight and out of the way and they kill other spiders as an added plus 👍
Ngl, I'm killing mine, but I'm reasonable. In less than 4 minutes I caught 7, in one basement corner and it's evident I have an infestation. But this is because I keep reptiles and sometimes their food gets loose and now I have a spider Hilton hotel with free buffet. When their numbers are down again, the lucky survivors will have it all to themselves till next year.
Nah fam, Imma stick to raid.
I saw a spider that had long legs, a yellow belly and big teeth Does anyone know what kind of spider it could be?
I'm searching about if the spider is venom, now I know that it doesn't. I'll left staying in my room.
Muchas gracias.
Interesting....but I'm still going to find a way to get rid of them . There's too many of them around my area
How do you get rid of them? Do you have any tricks?
After watching your video, I will be leaving our spider inside. ❤
Yay! The video is saving spiders, that's wonderful! 💗
Not being gross I seen one on my bedroom floor before so I got out my camera and zoomed in and it was acutely eating a little bug that the naked eye wouldn't see. I don't find them scary compared to regular spiders. I find them very curious there always landing beside me ! Like on a regular occasion they come down on there Web into my face. 😳 they tend to go where I am ! ... is my perfume attracting them ? Do they like certain scents? I wear Diana Ross, it smells like a forest.
I have 2 daddy long legs spiders in my room but I don't bother them at all
That's great! Are you able to tell if they are males or females? I have mainly females in my house.
@@natureclearly I think both of them are males
I remember having a lil guy just chilling behind my bedroom door in the corner and he was there for a couple months. I came back from school one day and noticed he was gone and that a different and nasty looking spider had taken over his web so I promptly gave the little f*cker the boot
@epicty3607 what spider was it was it a big one that took over the web
@@khymanser391yeah I don’t know exactly what type it was but it was fairly large and looked almost like a relatively small wolf spider. Was one of the only times I’ve ever witnessed a “hijacking” of another spider’s web lol
Normally I kill every spider in my house, but I can see how keeping this one around could be useful
😡But why would you kill something which isn't a danger to you?
@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim I don’t like spiders
In my country and my house dash around 20 of this spider една тоя ми е майка от 10:30
I have arachnophobia. Seriously. (I couldn't put my hand on a colour photo of a spider even if you offered me £500 to do so). But I'm *not* afraid of cellar spiders. In fact I leave their webs alone in my home unless they get too big and then I flick some away with a duster making sure I leave the resident spider alone.
The reason I let them be and in fact *welcome* them? They *hunt* the huge house spiders which invade my home every autumn.
If I see a house spider in my bedroom, I cannot turn off the light unless I've managed to trap it and put it outside.
One hid in my dressing gown and I didn't know until I went downstairs to clean my teeth (old house with downstairs bathroom) and saw it out of the corner of my eye walking on my shoulder.😱
After I'd stopped throwing up and crying and gone back upstairs to put on my other dressing gown (I cannot wear the 1st one again until I have washed it) I inspected the sink and everywhere around it to make sure the spider had gone, in order to be able to clean my teeth.
2 days ago, there was a whopper of a house spider on the ceiling in the living room but it was at the opposite end to where I sit.
This afternoon, I spotted it right above my PC, all trussed up like a neat little package, in the web of one of my 'guardians' , the cellar spider who lives up there.
If you are afraid of the nasty, big, hairy legged spiders, let Pholcidae live with you and build their webs. They will keep you safe.
I love nasty, big, harry legged spiders, but I keep my pholcids around regardless.
Yeah I’m the same way. I’m a HUGE arachnophobe when it comes to literally any other spider on this planet but i can comfortably sleep in the same room with one these little fellas knowing they’ll remain in their web 90% of the time and never bother me or crawl all over my damn walls and ceiling. Any other spider however who sets one leg in my room is gonna be kissing the bottom of my steel toe working boot.
The Crane Fly being also known as Daddy Long Legs.
That's true! Isn't that confusing?! The joy of common names...
i have hundreds of them in my house, they arent very good helpw tih insects and they crawl over me while im sleeping 😬😬😬
I’ve been killing these by the hundreds thinking they were brown recluse
My house i clean the spider and i gonna spider is get out with sweep
Have a lot of them my mom scard of them lol I try not harm them long not on me 😂
I live on farm
I was under the impression that their mouth parts were too small to bite humans? Can anyone confirm or deny?
It's true that this is commonly said about Pholcus spiders. Having chelicerae means the spiders can bite. They can obviously bite other insects. There's no clear evidence whether they can bite through human skin or not. But when you think about it, not all human skin is equally thick, so can we definitely say it is impossible? I don't think so...Would you feel the bite of this spider? Probably not.
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Hell nah
Brilliant explanation and images. Did you take the photos yourself? I reckon I love and respect all creatures, but this is one of the very few (along with mosquitoes and clothes moths) that I actively hunt down and kill. (It doesn’t make me feel good!) The reason being that (here in North West England) these spiders are DRAMATICALLY proliferating. They have moved North because of the warming climate. I’m not the best housekeeper (understatement!) and before you know it, one has a mass-infestation on one’s hands. And they get EVERYWHERE…including inside kitchen cupboards and every other relatively undisturbed space in the house. But they have feelings too, so nowhere draughty! The other reason I don’t like them is that they will readily predate the common house spider Tegenaria domestica, literally trussing them up in seconds. I’ve watched it happen. So I’m afraid these “upstart” new arrivals are on my “hit-list”!
I give you some credit for at least not feeling good about killing them! :)) I understand that they can get a little too comfortable in one's house and then there's an ever-growing spider family before you know it. I enjoy observing the spiders and also appreciate their hard work catching all the annoying pest insects (such as termites!), but we currently have around 10 spiders in each room and our (human) visitors don't find all the spiders and their webs as fascinating as we do! :)
The fact that they hunt the house spiders is a huge bonus for me. That being said, I refuse to kill even the house spiders which make me throw up and shake. I kill nothing if I can avoid it. I *welcome* pholcidae because they keep my home clear of the spiders which terrify me so badly.
Pholcidae don't bite, house spiders do. Pholcidae don't make scuttling sounds on the wallpaper above your head, house spiders do. Pholcidae don't jump at you, house spiders do.
Blimey! They must have some bad Tegenaria domestica in your neighbourhood!@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim