Remember this guy?
I made this post not so long ago about a spider that looks like a strawberry.
When we saw it, it was dragging around this hard brown ball. I thought it must be eggs, or it wouldn’t be going through the trouble of carrying it.
After I caught it in our kitchen floor and took it outside, the spider decided to flee and abandon her package. I decided to keep it just in case it really was an egg sac.
I took a mayo jar and put holes on the lid, and attached the brown thing near the lid. I put it on a shelf on my bedroom and completely forgot about it.
Until one day I was at my computer desk and saw this:
Aww, a little spiderling. How cute and tiny. It has a funny shape, it kind of looks like…. OH!
So I ran and looked at the jar and saw this!
Hundreds of little spiders crawling everywhere! They were escaping through the holes and going on exploratory walks all over my bedroom.
I tried to gather them all back into the jar so I could take them outside, but I still kept finding little spiders in my bedroom all day.
They are so delicate that the only way to grab them without hurting them is to grab them by their webs. So I would grab their webs and run outside, and they’d be flying behind me like mini spider balloons.
Here are some more pictures.
I was happy to see the little spiders. After the disturbance I caused by scaring mother spider, the circle of life still managed to come through. Now maybe we will have dozens of strawberry spiders in our backyard.
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They’re so cute!!! Do the little ones have the same mobility issues as mommy or do they get around better since their little butts haven’t gotten too big yet?
They wouldn’t run as fast as other baby spiders I’ve seen, but they were pretty fast. They were mostly dangling from their webs though, and not so much just walking on surfaces. They probably had already realized that it’s easier for them to move that way.
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Awwwwwwwwwwwww…!!! ^_____^
They’re absolutely adorable, the tiny strawberries!
It’s a beautiful thing you decided to keep the little sac and put it in a jar.
How hard was the ball? Like wood, or more elastic?
It was very hard. I thought it could be a big seed that got caught in her web and stuck to her.
Now that I think of it, I don’t think I inspected the sac after it hatched. I wonder how they got out…
they are so beautiful, you didn’t thought about them getting into your hair and ears?
they are like micro hundreeeds! hahahah & i saw the other hanging at the window, is like more hairy than this one was it younger?, could this be an old one? like the latrodectes that holds their little ones till they come out from the silk ball nests & feed from the mother?
I didn’t think much of it when I left it in my bedroom. I wasn’t expecting that they would come out. I did put a lid on it, but I guess it didn’t occur to me that they would be so little that they would come out through the breathing holes. Duh :)
I’m not a very careful person, hehe
The mum in the first picture is the same strawberry spider I posted before. It only appears less hairy because in the previous picture we were outside in the dark, so I used flash, and the little hairs reflected the flash, making a strong contrast with the dark background. In this picture we were still in the kitchen and the background is white, so the hairs don’t show as much.
Oh I see, though she was to old & at an effort, the chance of her last wish to spread her kind at the edge of her life crawling that huge ball sack of eggies , did she passed out after this or you just saw her that time? :) I just wonder about cause I just got some part of the story but not the whole thing hehe…