Mamata Polle
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Hi,
I've been watching/keeping Southern House Spider's for a long time and have never seen anything like this. Several weeks ago I was moving some potted plants out of the garage and was wearing gloves because we have alot of brown widows there, thus I didn't feel the web of the Kukulcania Hibernalis who was under the lip of one of the pots. She is physically fine but in picking up the pot I accidentally squashed her eggsack, (Really guilty :cry Seeing what I had done I brought her in and tried to get her to build a new web in a cardboard tube, (Most of them love these and will build over night.) A week later, nothing, just sits there. So I tried putting her in a critter keeper with a peice of cloth, (Odd I know, but it's another thing that they seem to appreciate, most really don't like natural materials.) Again, shoves herself in a corner and does nothing. I found her a male in the hopes that she could make another eggsack, he lives with her now and in the past I've seen this species respond well to having a member of the opposite sex around. (No, this species does not seem prone to cannabalism.) He pays attention to her, but not the other way around, she just sits in her corner. I had to have another female of the same species build a web for her because she wouldn't do so herself. I thought this would get her to eat but to no avail. Thinking the roach I gave her was too big because she seemed afraid of it, I tried smaller prey, much smaller than is usually appropriate to one her size. Still she won't respond, usually when something is stuck in the web, these spiders will pounce no matter what, even if they arent hungry! The only response this girl gives is sort of cringing in her corner. I give her water every day as it's the only thing she'll accept, but she is very thin and needs to eat real food.
Can someone please help!?
Be Well and God Bless,
Mamata
P.S. No, I've never seen spiders of any species sit together like this before, he stays close to her often.
I've been watching/keeping Southern House Spider's for a long time and have never seen anything like this. Several weeks ago I was moving some potted plants out of the garage and was wearing gloves because we have alot of brown widows there, thus I didn't feel the web of the Kukulcania Hibernalis who was under the lip of one of the pots. She is physically fine but in picking up the pot I accidentally squashed her eggsack, (Really guilty :cry Seeing what I had done I brought her in and tried to get her to build a new web in a cardboard tube, (Most of them love these and will build over night.) A week later, nothing, just sits there. So I tried putting her in a critter keeper with a peice of cloth, (Odd I know, but it's another thing that they seem to appreciate, most really don't like natural materials.) Again, shoves herself in a corner and does nothing. I found her a male in the hopes that she could make another eggsack, he lives with her now and in the past I've seen this species respond well to having a member of the opposite sex around. (No, this species does not seem prone to cannabalism.) He pays attention to her, but not the other way around, she just sits in her corner. I had to have another female of the same species build a web for her because she wouldn't do so herself. I thought this would get her to eat but to no avail. Thinking the roach I gave her was too big because she seemed afraid of it, I tried smaller prey, much smaller than is usually appropriate to one her size. Still she won't respond, usually when something is stuck in the web, these spiders will pounce no matter what, even if they arent hungry! The only response this girl gives is sort of cringing in her corner. I give her water every day as it's the only thing she'll accept, but she is very thin and needs to eat real food.
Can someone please help!?
Be Well and God Bless,
Mamata
P.S. No, I've never seen spiders of any species sit together like this before, he stays close to her often.
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