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The dirty foot of little feet in a child’s bedroom is a joyful sound – except maybe if the feet belong to hundreds of babies hunting spiders.
“Gaaaahhhhhhhh, a friend of mine in Sydney just walked into her daughter’s room and found it,” Australia resident Hobart Peta Rogers said. tweeted on January 27th. Rogers’ Sydney friend, who asked not to be identified on social media, sent Rogers photos and a video of her daughter’s bedroom, after the teenager told her: “Mommy, we have a bunch of spiders above, “the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) report on January 30th.
When Rogers’ friend went to investigate, she found quite a few spiders in the corner of the room. “It’s not too bad, there are maybe 50 or 60,” she says in the video. And then she turns the camera to another angle and reveals at least twice as many spiders bending on the walls and ceiling.
“They are so cute!” she exclaims.
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While the Sydney woman was filming her leggy house guests, she speculated that they were baby hunter spiders, which occur in the spider family Sparassidae and are widespread in Australia and elsewhere with warm climates. One hunter species, the giant hunter spider (Heteropod maxima) of Laos, has a leg width of up to 30 centimeters (30 centimeters) and is the largest spider in the world by diameter. But the average hunter has a leg width of no more than 12 centimeters and a length of only 2.5 cm long.
In the summer in Australia, hunter populations thrive, and it’s not uncommon for spiders to find their way to people’s homes, Australia’s Nine News report on Monday (February 1). In fact, many Sydney residents reported hunter-gatherer infections this week, probably due to the recent weather, according to ABC. A low pressure front after a few days of high temperatures caused rain and humidity; Hunter spiders often seek shelter in human homes when heat and moisture are too intense, because homes provide very safe corners where spiders can hide – and where females can lay their eggs, said arrogance expert Robert Raven, head of Terrestrial Biodiversity at Australia. Queensland Museum.
However, this type of weather also holds favorable conditions for breeding hunters, Raven added.
“Low pressure is one of the triggers for the emergence of the egg sac,” Raven told ABC. Warm, moist air is ideal for thin-skinned baby spiders, which dry out quickly when conditions are too dry, and one egg sac can contain hundreds of baby hunters – which can lead to massive infections as in the video.
Unfortunately, these dense clusters of cute baby spiders do not stay long because the spiders are ‘highly cannibalistic’ and begin to devour each other quickly within a day or two, said arrognologist Lizzie Lowe, a postdoc at the Behavioral Ecology Group in Macquarie, Australia. . University, told Nine News.
Originally published on Live Science.