dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

This spider was in a a bowel taken from my cabinet. This spider is ultra small and it brings to question... what does he heat. So small, yet he eats something... something so small one can not see it with the unaided eye.

Photo taken with kitchen in the ceiling lighting. The camera is a Panasonic TZ-100. The image was boosted with Topaz Gigapixel and color adjusted. The coin is a US Dime... there for size comparison.

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dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Whatever the spider eats, maybe it's already heated by the environment of that bowel from your kitchen cabinet...???
(my apologies!!....a couple of your inadvertent typos struck a funny chord in my noggin.)

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

It was late and just woke from the recliner... sleeping eyes do not see.

The Panasonic TZ100 is an amazing computer that takes photos well... a pocket package that does 1001 tricks. My two full cameras and the 6 lenses each sit idle ... weapons of the last war.

The dime is 18mm diameter.

docshark Loc: Millersville, PA

It’s good the bowl was white. That is one minuscule arachnid! Well shot and putting the dime in frame for scale was perfect. Fine job!
>i< Doc

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

The spider is about 4.4 mm. I compared to the about 18mm dime. According to economists the dime shrinks at an alarming rate.

I did a search for small spiders and here is one where he used a dime for comparison.
http://bradaptation.com/2007/09/07/tiny-spiders/

OH MY~!!! This may be one of many babies lurking behind the cabinet, in the walls ... just fell out of the nest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8XducwYuNg

How much meat does a vegetarian eat when they eat a leaf of a raw veggie?

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

The size of the one in your photo, plus the video, remind me of something when I was around 4 or 5 years old.

We had just returned one night from having been out to a school concert involving one of the teens in the house, or something.
A loud yell and some sounds of freaking out from one of the adults in the house, resulted in some of us rushing to the bathroom to see what was causing the commotion.
In the bathtub was a totally black spider, too large in diameter(?, what would you call it?) to fit into the tub drain and be sent down the drain. Someone was sent to the kitchen for a plastic bread sack, and with that over the hand like a mitt, the adult grasped the spider to put it into the toilet for a trip down the drain. Immediately, from underneath the spider, tiny black dots appeared and began scurrying all over the inside of the tub. There must have been 350 - 400 of those tiny, tiny spider babies under that big blob of a spider.

docshark Loc: Millersville, PA

No vegetarian here. I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!!!!
>i< Doc

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Dpullum, I may be wrong although it is highly likely that this is a young brown recluse spider based on the "fiddle-back" pattern that I see on it. It's a stalker/hunter, not an orb weaver web catcher. Finding it in a dark cabinet is another indication that the brown recluse spider uses the dark and shadows to hunt and ambush prey.

There are times that I believe we are located in the center of their universe because I find so many of them in our home.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Yike~!!

Sippy, I viewed a spider video by Coyote Peterson. it appears you are right. Finding the rent free guest and the 3' Black Snake that was in my bathtub... Florida is a great place to be~?? Both were migrated to the wild life area near by to live peacefully.

Thank you for your input... I respect your detailed work...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt4ZsS2XHmc

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Yes, dustie, we have hard wired fears of snakes and spiders... primitive brain survival things

As a child running they the tall grass bordered path to a neighbors house I bare chested hit a yellow garden spider web with her in the center ... it adhered to my chest ... quickly in terror i wiped it off... it is a memory horror fixed in my mind...

In the Photo Art section I depicted a cat's nightmare with Tarantula Hair and flies and a colorful spider... very few comments the "that's nice" people avoided it.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-792286-1.html