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By: Rahfael

Rahfael — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:38:20 +0000

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…

By: BugLady

BugLady — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:16:04 +0000

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.

By: Rahfael

Rahfael — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:52:56 +0000

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?

By: BugLady

BugLady — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:56:51 +0000

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…

By: Pirrakas

Pirrakas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:51:21 +0000

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?

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By: BugLady

BugLady — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:36:59 +0000

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.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:28:30 +0000

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?