{"id":3590,"date":"2025-10-30T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/thousands-of-spiders-could-be-in-home-at-once\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:06:42","slug":"thousands-of-spiders-could-be-in-home-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/thousands-of-spiders-could-be-in-home-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of spiders could be in home at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-30 12:06:40<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A &#8220;couple of thousand&#8221; spiders could be in a house at any one time.<BR><br \/>\nLuis Villazon, a zoologist, said the big figure is if people include baby spiders.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;A 2016 study of 50 houses in North Carolina, US, found cobweb spiders in 65 per cent of all rooms sampled, but this was looking at biodiversity and didn&#8217;t count the number of individual spiders.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;To add some research of my own, I&#8217;ve just hoovered my entire house &#8211; a rare event &#8211; and only found 26 spiders.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But that&#8217;s just the parts of the house that we can easily scrutinise.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If you consider under the floorboards, behind the fridge, the loft, the garage and so on, there could easily be that many more still hiding.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Spiders lay anything from 10-250 eggs at a time, and house spiders may lay as many as five clutches per year.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;Less than one per cent will reach adulthood, but if we count baby spiders in our household population census, the figure may be as many as a couple of thousand spiders at any one time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-30 12:06:40 A &#8220;couple of thousand&#8221; spiders could be in a house at any one time. Luis Villazon, a zoologist, said the big figure is if people include baby spiders.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}