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The organism inside the plastic container hung upside down from the top the of the lid. It had eight legs and two body segments, with the body being no larger than two millimeters squared. The abdomen of this organism protruded from the cephalothorax and the long, thin legs stuck out from the thorax segment. This characteristic indicated to me that the organism is most likely a spider. As I moved the container around in my hands, the spider frantically ran around the inside of the container. The tiny legs seemed to move with no precision or direction. I noticed that the legs had three joints, and on these joints were little dark brown dots. The two front legs were longer than the rest of the legs on the spider. After I tapped on the plastic container, the spider scrunched up and timidly rested in the corner of the container as if it was trying to hide from me. After more observation, a small web became apparent on the bottom of the container, where the spider was most likely resting before being passed around. 

The organism I am looking at is slightly see through. It has I think 3 body segments with 8 legs. The body segments are roughly 2 millimeters wide by 1 millimeter wide. The abdomen is the longest body segment and sticks out. The legs come out from the thorax I believe. The legs are jointed with brown spots are each joint. The legs are extremely long and hold up the body. They look very disproportionate to the body size as they are extremely thin. The body segment is very dark and less see trough compared to the legs. The organism is hanging upside down and I am not sure how. It has a teeny tiny mouth where it probably eats teeny tiny foods. The mouth has tiny antler looking things on the outside of it. The legs look a little bit polka-dotted. The organism is most likely a spider – an Arthropoda to be exact. The spider is moving around with twitchy leg movements and is moving very slowly – not precisely at all. The legs are flailing everywhere. The legs look a little bit fuzzy the more I look at them, but that could just be blurry vision. The front two legs are longer than the other legs. The 2^nd to last legs are the shortest. When I touch the outside of the glass, the spider scrunches up and looks very scared and timid, almost as if it is trying to make itself smaller and hide. The spider is now not moving and it looks like it is either sleeping or relaxing. It is probably scared of me because I tapped the plastic cup – sorry. I am not sure if there is a web, and I do not see any other abscess coming from the abdomen like other people noticed. 5 mins later - Now it is starting to make a web! It is making a web across the flat part of the Tupperware thing. Sometimes it points it two first legs at me when it gets angry I am assuming. It is just hanging there.