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no longer than a centimeter yellow in color and has hairs on its underbelly. found in my notebook, it has appendages on the front of its body only.

This is from my terrarium I added springtails when I built it but few days later I spot these things which are not white.

Is this the tiniest of gryllus campestris ?

No idea what this is, is it bad for me/my trees? I've seen these around years ago coinciding with one of my mango trees dying. There is also another variety of this thing with the exact same coloring of a cockroach, I think

hello everyone,

I know spiders dont count as bugs technically, but alot of people still see them as such and I fear this is the only sub I know where people wont call me stupid for being upset.

I keep spiders that live in my apartment save. I had Bert, who free roamed for 2 years before passing away of old age, and now I had this one, that I didnt name because I was afraid to get too attached again. I do not keep them in cages, as in my experience theyre just chill little guys who keep my place fly free in exchange for warmth.

He stayed in his corner or next to my heater, and chilled with me for roughly a year. I watched him grow bigger and shed, was always careful as to not scare him or destroy any of his webs which he kept to a respectful amount.

Today I found him dead, squished, in the middle of my desk. He never went on my desk. Just laying there flatly, my boy. Im honestly devastated. I don't know how it happened - he was smart enough to stay away from my cat, and my cat wears a cone, so I doubt she couldve aimed for him. Yesterday I think I put my trashcan on the spot he died, and I think I was the one who squished him.

I feel awful. I kept him at my place so no one would be so cruel as to kill him for simply existing - and now I was the one responsible for his early end. I should have been more careful. Maybe he just trusted me enough to go explore while I was there, and then I go ahead and kill him just because I didnt pay attention.

I know in other places people would laugh at me for being this upset over a spider, but I hope yall can understand my devastation. I will go and burry him tomorrow, and in the future be more careful for his kind. I guess I'm just looking for understanding as I'm afraid to share my feelings with any of my irl friends bc honestly I think if someone laughed in my face or told me they usually squish them I would cry right now. :(

RIP little guy. Im so sorry.

EDIT: Thank you guys SO MUCH for your love. This all made me feel alot better and seeing how much love you all too have for them warms my heart. Sadly I decided to not burry him as I have a phobia of dead things and my bf is deadly afraid of spiders (he has to live with my house spider thing and he has accepted it and me for this!) So we ended up vacuuming him in hopes that he will be composted and therefore return back into the earth again. Hopefully maybe in the summer we'll get a new little guy and I'll make sure to be even more careful :'[

Cape Town South Africa. I need this OUT of my house. Is it dangerous? I have a dog, scared it’ll try to eat it. Help.

I found it in a greenhouse between some jackets. It looks like it was empty for a while haha :) maybe spiders inhabiting an old wasp nest? What do you think?

Found this peculiar little guy in my shed and had no idea what it was. It was digging like a mole, so that's how we figured out what it was on Google.

Never seen one before and now I'm obsessed with his little mole hands.

Released him outside.

Chatgpt says it is a Clover mite but when I looked at the pictures, it’s not the same insect.

Hey everyone! 😃

So this little guy has been living in my side view mirror for I want to say about 2 or 3 months now. I’ve kinda grown attached to it and named them Kyle 😂

Could anyone please identify what spider it it? 😃 oh I live in New Zealand if that helps too

I was about to eat homemade soup and as I was scooping in the cooked noodles...a few were in there...dead.

Found in a new home, apologies for quality of the picture