Spiders mating in my room?

BrianG23

So, i've been hearing this sound for months and months, and I find daddy long leg...lookalikes? Is there many types of daddy long legs? These ones just have skinny bodies.

But anyway, they make this sound, I can here it at night, I didn't know what it was for months, I thought it might be pipes or something in the wall. But I googled "Do spiders make sounds" and came upon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxrlz8hDl8

Its pretty similar...like extremely similar. Am I fooked? If I look hard enough I can always find one. But its just a daddy long legs....lookalike. Always..I really ain't enjoying it..What can I do about it?

Rancid

Those daddy-long-legs look-alike spiders are Pholcus phalangioides. Sometimes called cellar spiders and very harmless.
I have a few of them in each room, they keep to themselves for the most part, living in corners near the ceilings. Never heard any noise from them, ever. At all!
If they are disturbed they vibrate their web by shaking it, trembling movements with their legs that cause the whole thing to move. It's a type of defence mechanism.
But they'll do that while IN their web, not when standing on a wall or a ceiling, so it's totally silent.

Investigate further, something else has to be making the noises you're hearing.

BrianG23

Thanks for the reply! To be honest i've never really noticed the sound before until the last 6 months or so, I think I have ignored it most of my life as its faint and unnotcable, but once you hear it and know what it is(thank you google)...its almost impossible to miss...

I'm pretty convinced it is the spiders, as I have heard the sound coming from two different places before, one closer to my bed another further in the room, I couldn't find the one near the bed if I had to guess there is one behind the radiator. But I did find the other one and put it out. That eliminated the second sound whereas the closer one sure enough started again minutes later.

Another I could hear and started looking around for the spider, my girlfriend spotted it behind the TV. Its hard to pinpoint the exact location of the sound each time but i'm pretty sure they are making the sounds and there is always one in the direction I check. Sadly I heard a similar sound the other night but it was much more defined and louder so i'm convinced its a different spider altogether for that one..

I honestly couldn't care less about them until I found out they were making noises, now I hear it at night and know they're something near.

The type of spider, I think you are right however the back section of the body is more square/rectangle than rounded, is that right?

Rancid

I guess if they're vibrating their web very close to ceiling, wall or radiator it's possible they could be tapping the surface.... maybe!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcus_phalangioides
Take a look at the pictures there, you'll see the different body shapes.

Isambard

you're OK once they are mating, no one ever got eaten by one in the mating season

fryup

throw a bucket of cold water on them and tell them to find a room