While drinking tea this morning I noticed something moving on the dinner table. It was really tiny so also very cute. It was a “spiderling”, as I later found the exact word to call it by when I googled. It felt like she (or he?) is just now getting familiar with her abilities, like a superhero/girl getting out to test their superpowers. So as any superhero does, she jumped out of the table suddenly and now she was dangling down to the side of the table, the silk she was using was invisible but it was there. There was a breeze coming from the kitchen window, she started climbing towards the table again. A few moments later she jumped off again and started climbing down, I also knelt down to see her.

I find spiders quite scary but she was really small so there was not even a pinch of scariness. As I knelt down, she threw a few of her silk threads on my T shirt while she was still hovering in the middle of the air, hanging at half the table length. I could feel it because when I moved my hand she came towards me. Finally she was able to touch the floor and started moving towards the kitchen. I followed her for a few seconds and then decided to keep her somewhere safe. My tea was already finished, and I was also googling about how people feed their pet spiderlings.

It was hard to locate her because she was so tiny, I got scared that I would lose her trail, so I took out a glass from kitchen and laid it in front of her. To my surprise, she happily (not sure if she can actually feel anything like that) jumped inside. I kept a paper on top of it using tape to hold it in its place. I was a bit scared that it will be too hot for her inside the glass. But I couldn’t let her go so, kept her inside for sometime. I also started googling while watching her move around. I found that people buy special food for their spiderling pet.

I couldn’t identify her, but it felt like a tiny version of a jumping spider I had seen before, which is called Lynx spider but I’m still not sure. I also found that the best way to give water to your spiderling is by spraying it on their enclosure wall otherwise they will drown. I had a bit of water in my glass from night, and a pencil lying around. So I used the pencil to make small droplets of water and a bit of juice on the side of glass. She went towards the juice droplet and probably had a sip or two. I couldnt tell, because the droplet size was similar to her. After sometime, I decided that I wont be able to take care of her, because she would need to eat insects also. So I went out and lowered the glass on a leaf and she jumped out of the glass happily. I saw her for a bit and then she disappeared.

The life cycle of all spiders starts with eggs, then after hatching, the spiderlings mold many times to become full adult spider. So she still has to mold many times and grow.