I've had reports of people as far as Virginia finding these guys right off their porchs and more reports within the gulf coast. Hope that helps, perhaps someone has seen them recently?
Joel:confused:
Babies are good, momma has passed on.....She did lay one more egg sac and I'll be the surrogate mommy. It looks like I'll probably have 70 individuals from the first sac after cannibalism. I'll try to minimize it by profiding live prey but will have to see after they emerge from the sac. I...
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That's probably Phiddipus pulcherrimus. What a great looking spider. You did say egg sac right? Hmmm.... Any adults up for sale at your website? Thanks for sharing the great pic Darrin
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Joel:D
I never thought of it like that
Yeah it's a little weird but that's exactly how it feels. You could be the aunt of 100 babies. And you thought that today was just going to be one of those days.....
Babies smile for laura, hey put that cricket down, don't eat your brother, hey stop that...
Perhaps the same mech that causes this "tolerance" for one another is also the same when snakes den in a hibernaculum? Another possible explanation for tolerance is cooperative hunting when juveniles. Many spiders will stay together for a period of time in order to increase the chances of...
Perhaps the mechanisms which prevent the predation, of their own kind, is driven by the need(hesitate to use this because I'm anthropomorphosizing them but for lack of better terms) to perpetuate naturally selected genes. If they ate each other to the point where not enough of the offspring...
Everything looks good
Well momma P.regius has left the eggsac to fend for itself. The babies are still moving around inside. Probably within the next week or so they should be breaking out and hunting. I'll send some pics when that happens.
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Joel:D
barn spider
Sharon
As common names are difficult to translate sometimes because of their broad nature. Generally the common name "barn spider" is used to refer to the orb-weaving barn spider, Araneus cavaticus. However with the X stance mentioned it must be either from Pisaurina or...
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