# Jasmine's Growing Spider Army **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466 "2026-08-21T14:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466/21 "2026-08-22T00:57:25Z")
> [@chela](#): > > In the meantime look for spider egg sacs babies! While in grad school in 1978, I moved into an old house and took over utility bills for the summer while the usual renter went home for the summer. He loved it because he didn’t have to have all the connections terminated and have to reconnect them in the fall (back then, it typically took about two weeks at the start of the semester to get a telephone reconnected). Rent was $70 per month. The landlord had grown up in that house in the 1910s and 1920s. I listened to the Indy 500 on the radio that May. After the race was over, I called up the head of the press box at the local speedway and we talked about the race. When I set the phone back down, I saw baby spiders scattering everywhere. Every time I brushed my hand through my hair that evening, more baby spiders fell out. I didn’t get them all out until I took a bath (the house didn’t have a shower) and washed my hair. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466/22 "2026-08-22T05:53:24Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Possibly! But it’s high risk behavior as your house spider could also end on the wasps dinner plate. Especially if they are the appropriately named spider wasp. I’ve seen these guys do their thing, and it’s quite an uneven battle each time. The spiders have no hope. > **[Spider wasp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_wasp)** > > see text Pompilidae is a family of wasps commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. With the exception of some group-nesting Ageniellini), the wasps are solitary. Most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are kleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders. In South America, species may be referred to colloquially as marabunta or marimbond... ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466/23 "2026-08-22T23:31:48Z")
“Exceptional arachnid productivity” That’s Baltimore baby! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466/24 "2026-08-24T12:31:18Z")
> That ‘conservative’ estimate is equivalent to 35,176 spiders per cubic metre of space. WHAT?! How is that even possible? > [@Chronos](#): > > The spiders would never have reached that population without plenty of food Define, “plenty of food”. Enough to end world hunger? > [@Chronos](#): > > What else was the plant infested with? Maybe some things are better left unsaid. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466/25 "2026-08-25T12:33:14Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > All she seems to have so far is a childless couple. Yes, this concerns me. The weather will be getting hostile, too. Can they survive under the eaves using the ambient heat from inside my abode? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jasmines-growing-spider-army/1032466.md?page=1)