Wait, There's Two Of You?

"Wait, there's TWO of you?" is not something I EVER thought I'd be saying in bed!

But... here we are, and I did indeed shout this in bed last night.

To be clear, however, it was not at any humans (for better or worse) but was at two damn spiders on the floorboard that I could see *from* my bed.

These damn spiders.  These big legged thin ones that make the messiest web/nests and that keep coming back to the same handful of spaces in my place!

I have a small wall radiator in my bedroom (it's rarely, if ever on FWIW) and for the last month or so a spider has occasionally been spotted there when I get in to bed at night to read.

I've been leaving this spider because, well, I'm in bed and it feels like a lot of effort to get out, put on something, find a glass and a piece of cardboard, trap the spider, walk it to the hallway, put things away, get undressed, get back into bed and get resettled.  So... I've left it alone.

But last night, I got into bed, looked over and saw that suspicious something (it looks like a bit of dust, they're quite thin spiders) and as I was looking at the first spider I saw another one not far away from the first which led me to yell THERE'S TWO OF YOU????? which I then thought was very funny as, well, again, not something I ever thought I'd be saying in bed. Heh.

I did, however, grab my swiffer and push them around into the dark spot of the radiator so I could pretend to forget about them but I also swept up the messy webs they'd built (it's like I can't go two days without knocking them down, they're very prolific in their building...sigh).  But I mean I get the whole "spiders eat bugs" thing but then I saw a baby silverfish on my wall that the two of them hadn't even eaten so if you're going to hang out in my spaces, you at least need to do your job no????

Le sigh.

Also, I assumed spiders were more territorial than that but what do I know.  (Will google it.)  And then that also got me thinking about spider replication because like I assume these ones are maybe all related, same brood and so do they um, like, you know, make babies with their siblings/offspring?   But anyway... I'll google that too.