Attack of the baby spiders!
While photographing a house in Seattle a few weeks ago, my kids found a ton of baby spiders that had just hatched on the stairs leading up to the house. Of course I could not resist getting some photos! Here is the group of spiders to give you an idea how many there were.
A little bit of research at bugguide.net revealed that these are baby orb weaver spiders. Everywhere around the stairs they were spinning webs. They were crawling on the ground and a few of them even tried to create a nest on my camera! Of course, I couldn’t resist getting a closer look at them.