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I witnessed this glorious event and then showed the image to my wife. She demanded to know where on our house this was. I wouldn't tell her.



They are our friends

These are spiderlings (newly hatched baby spiders), most likely from an orb-weaver species such as the Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia), which is very common in Michigan.
The image shows a classic mass emergence: hundreds of tiny, bright yellow spiderlings clustered on house siding (often near where an egg sac was hidden or attached). This is typical behavior right after they hatch—they stick together initially before dispersing (often via "ballooning" on silk threads carried by the wind).

I take pictures of spiders for some reason and I've been doing it for a long time...I just realized that. It's weird.

I always felt like I was imitating Star Trek with my flip phone. That was the last phone I liked. It was cheap and it just made phone calls….no movies, no ‘apps’.

Life was better.