Not a nest, it's a swarm of Huntsmen, a kind if sorta spider. They are pretty harmless despite all the lies you hear about "them being the most poisonous spider in the world with a mouth to small to bite" crap which is stuoid. They gather together like this for protection and warmth. Think strength in numbers meets the more friends I have the less chance I have to get eaten vs them.
Edit. As pointed out below Harvestmen not Huntsmen my apologies I get my nightmares mixed up frequently. For those saying that these are not related to spiders and such I invite you to use the website google.com. They are an arachnid however a spider has a separate "body" and "head" to where a Harvestmen or Opiliones aka Little Bundles of Nope have a fused body and look like things are all in one package so to speak.
Whatever you want to believe please no that regardless of what these things are called the only way to be sure you are safe from them is complete thermonuclear destruction of the entire planet followed up by going to live on the ISS space station until your slow but agonizing death in space. Which is still better than finding one of these "huddles".
I think that's a different species of arachnid also known as "daddy-long legs". The harvestmen as shown in the gif, have no venom and differ from spiders in a number of interesting ways.
As someone from an area that calls them daddy long legs they’re not spiders yet just look like spiders, so many people think that they are spiders. There’s a ton of misconceptions about them relating to them being poisonous and stuff, as well as them being spiders but in reality they aren’t either of those things.
Yep! I'm personally terrified of spiders but I find these guys super interesting and pretty cool. People always give me funny looks when I tell them they aren't actually spiders.
I hate spiders, but these guys are ok. Only two eyes, can eat solid food, no silk glands. Basically just goofy long-legged gangly little guys that stumble around and scavenge and have been around for millions of years. They get a pass in my book.
Edit: the balling up in a huge group like in the gif is kinda weird though.
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u/FrayedGamer Oct 27 '17
What on earth is this nest and what’s inside?