The vast majority of D. diadema individuals come from savannahs with intense sunlight. Do they avoid it like the plague? Absolutely, but to me that suggests that LED lighting ought to be fine as long as you give them a place to avoid it.
All you have to do to simulate sunrisw is hook the LED's...
This is really surprising; IME they basically don't eat past satiation, and will frequently refuse food for no reason at all.
Also weird that you found it outside; must be an escapee or release, I guess.
I was gonna say--lots of tropical Drosera don't need dormancy. Capensis is great, but there's also adelae, aliciae, spatulata, etc. Also, I think pygmy Drosera need dormancy in the wild, but possibly not in captivity. Nep. ventricosa, alata, and their easy hybrids are good picks too.
If you're...
Any guesses? 2-2.5" legspan, thought maybw Sparassidae because it reminds me of an Australian huntsman (the angle is bad, but its front legs were longer than its back and all were splayed to the sides).
I know, I meant with bright LEDs. But even then it'd be rough, especially since you have no good way to provide winter dormancy.
What about tillandsia? You'd also need artificial lighting, but Spanish moss is native and could be pretty neat if done right.
I wouldn't be worried about a flytrap in that regard, but I would be worried about the light level, as well as a complete lack of winter dormancy. Same story for sundews, butterworts, and bladderworts, although I'd bet the latter don't care as much.
English ivy isn't native to the deep south...
This turned out to be spot on--checked the same guitar case and she was back, having completely reconstructed her web from scratch. Just took the whole case across the street, where there's a storm drain she might want to set up shop at (cool, dark, probably decent prey). She was pretty...
Went away for a week, and apparently a black widow decided to take up residence in and around my guitar case while I was gone. Unfortunately, I didn't react quickly or cleverly enough when I noticed, so she (tentative sex) ran behind the bookshelf. When I actually looked behind and under it...
Both Montreal and Ottawa seem to be quite a bit warmer than Groveton. Can't hurt to look, though, especially since a lot of what creates those inaturalist range limits is just where people are, not where species are.
I think it works ok to tell where charismatic flowers are common, but it's hugely limited by whatever people feel like submitting, and I can promise you that that isn't Dysdera.
In fairness, Nashua's far enough south and close to the coast that it's probably decently warmer than Groveton in...
On top of what everyone else said (I've seen them in the woods in the wild in MA), they're not particularly big or colorful, and their behaviors are fairly standard.
I wouldn't trust inaturalist on much of anything. I'd probably ask a scammer first when it comes to the range of Dysdera in the...
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