"Accidentally" adopted a Uloborus

[Theraphosphor]

Saw what looked like detritus hanging from an indoor cobweb, blew on it to check, and it zipped down a silk tether faster than any other spider I've seen. Couldn't get it to go back up the wall, frantically tried to look for it on the carpet that was the same color it was.

I finally found the hook-shaped spider playing dead on said carpe. Closer inspection reveals it to be a Uloborus sp., probably glomosus.

Its name is Strawberry, and lives in a sauce cup of the same make and model as Harley's. I've added some tulle fabric to act as an anchor point for its web, and it seems to have worked.

I fed it a D. melanogaster. The fly was at least as big as it was, but I don't see it anymore, so Strawberry may have eaten it.

Anyone ever care for this species before?

 

[zsiciarz]

Yeah, I have a U. plumipes that I picked up from a gardening store a few months ago. She's living among my house plants and feeds on gnats and an occasional lateralis roach nymph.

Uloborus plumipes

• zsiciarz
• Nov 18, 2023
• plumipes true spider uloboridae uloborus

A non-venomous, cribellate true spider from the Uloboridae family. Originating from warmer...

Uloborus plumipes

• zsiciarz
• Jan 14, 2024
• 1
• araneomorphae plumipes true spider uloboridae uloborus

One of the very few non-venomous spiders in the world.

I've collected this specimen from a...

 

[Theraphosphor]

I'm probably going to feed it some fungus gnats and aphids. Do you think the fact that the aphids were feeding on a hot pepper plant could be a problem?