OMGOMG Baby spidersss
I went outside through the back porch and saw this:
Then I came closer….
…ENHANCE!
It’s baby spiders by the dozens BAWWWWW! Arenttheycute?
If you don’t think baby spiders are cute you have no heart, no soul, YOU ARE DEAD INSIDE.
Ah, spring is wonderful.
I never saw a spider quite like this, yellow with a black triangle on the back and a racing strip in the bottom. It’s obviously Araneus something… but what? Does the pattern on their backs change when they grow and make them look like an Araneus marmoreus?
Do you think I should put one in a jar and feed it and see what it looks like when it grows up? :D
… not like I’ve never done that before, tehehe…
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The patterns are most likely to change, but keeping orb weaves in jars is quite hard, they need space for web… since they’re at your porch you can always see them growing :)
Didnt you see their mother?
When I kept some babies in a jar a while ago, it was only during the time when they were really tiny and frail. when they were the size of my pinky nail, I let them loose on my palm tree. It was a big jar too, and I put some sticks in that they used to make webs.
The mother wasn’t around. The pics above show exactly what I saw before I touched them. They are already all gone from the porch. I carried some to my garden, to some shrubs I have. I saw some making their cute little webs over there, but it’s very difficult for them to remain, with all the dangers out there, and with the crazy spring storms we’ve been having. Oh well, I hope to find some adults by the trees later on.
AWWWWWW…!! So pretty pretty tiny things…!! :3
Recently (yes, wonderful springtime) I have had my own spiderlings in a jar!
I found one fat “steatoda grossa” (AKA false black widow) months ago in my kitchen, so I took “her” (yes, it’s female) and put her all comfy in a tupper-ware, where I feed her regularly.
Time after that I found a male of the same species, so I put him into the tupper with my female… only to find him eaten by the next day. Poor boy!
But his sacrifice wasn’t in vane, no… The female got pregnant!! ^___^ I didn’t realize by then, of course… but just about one month later, she made a beautiful little sack with dozens of white eggs into it. She was all day near the sack, keeping an eye on it, like a good mother hen, he he. It took one months plus, but finally the eggs broke, though the little spiderlings didn’t go out. They did stay completely still into the sack, and I had to wait for nearly another month to see them go out and run all over the tupperware. Awwwww… There were fourty of them!!
I have release them by now, but some of them I have keep in another tupperware, just to see them grow up. By the way, I took pictures of all the fellows taking part in this story… The mommy: my female spider pet (I have named her “Tecla”); the poor deceased father, (named “Ken”, RIP); and the forty tiny sons and daughters… Some day I will post the pictures!