Baby spiders

I can't bring myself to break up spider webs so the front window of my house that is nearest the outside light is getting rather messy (not posting pictures 😝) There is one lurking hunter that looks like a wolf spider but most of them are hackled orb weavers, aka Uloborids. These spiders are found worldwide and are completely harmless - they don't have any venom, they capture insects in their web and wrap them tightly with silk, then ingest their prey by covering it in digestive enzymes. Here's an adult busy eating.

I think their lumpy abdomens are rather endearing. They also have rather wide front legs which they normally keep together when they rest in their webs although hers are apart as she is consuming her prey. The lumps and bumps tend to work well as camouflage, making the spider look like an old bit of a leaf or a bit of tree bark and if you go too close to their webs, they start swinging back and forth rapidly, I suppose this gives the impression of a bit of leaf or something swinging in a breeze and confuses predators.

This is a clutch of hatchling spiders. Although the large shape looks a bit like the adult spider, it is actually the egg sac

I suppose I really should work on clearing those cobwebs but I tell myself that if I move the light elsewhere, as I have planned, they will go away by themselves. I hate disturbing spiders