#pholcid

Beautiful man in my bathroom (he got scared when I put my hand up for comparison and started shaking his web)

Good sized cellar spider in my kitchen. Beneficial house guests if you dont mind the cobwebs. They might be frail, but I've seen their webs catch stinkbugs, along with small clothing damaging moths, flies and other pests. #spider #spiders #pholcid #pholcidae #bugs #insects #arachnids #arachnid #cellarspider https://www.instagram.com/p/B4y4AdSBhi7/?igshid=srofbw6xcjc6

OH SORRY I SHOULD'VE KNOCKED

Pholcus phalangioides or daddy-long-legs, also known as the cellar spider or skull spider due to its silvery cephalothorax supposedly looking like a human skull. Confusion arises over the common name, because "daddy long legs" is also applied to two other completely unrelated arthropods: the harvestman 'spiders' or Opiliones, and the Tipulid crane flies. There's a myth they have incredibly poisonous venom, but their fangs are too short to inject through human skin. Not true, and covered by the Mythbusters. One of the most common spiders in practically any Australian home, and indeed elsewhere around the world, thanks to the simple fact that it LOVES human buildings - we keep them warm and dry, and usually have lots of other spiders around they can eat. In Australia, they're a major predator of the Redback, which is a genuinely dangerous spider. If disturbed, they'll vibrate in their webs until they'll almost invisible, or, if really desperate, lose a leg, as this one has.