Captive Garden Spider Laid Eggs

[Redwizard000]

I'm not exactly sure what she is, some sort of garden spider or orb weaver. She's black and she has 4 white dots on the underside of her abdomen.

I caught her (...rescued) at a family members house and I've been taking care of her for a few weeks now. Today she laid an egg sac.

And I'm not exactly sure what to do about it.

Can anyone give a positive ID on the spider (Yeah I know the picture isn't great.), it kinda resembles Neoscona crucifera.

And does anyone know what the incubation period might be? And anyone have any suggestions about what to do with 1000 spider eggs? I'm thinking of somehow just putting her and the eggs outside somewhere but I don't want to disturb her.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I'm not exactly sure what she is, some sort of garden spider or orb weaver. She's black and she has 4 white dots on the underside of her abdomen.

I caught her (...rescued) at a family members house and I've been taking care of her for a few weeks now. Today she laid an egg sac.

And I'm not exactly sure what to do about it.

Can anyone give a positive ID on the spider (Yeah I know the picture isn't great.), it kinda resembles Neoscona crucifera.

And does anyone know what the incubation period might be? And anyone have any suggestions about what to do with 1000 spider eggs? I'm thinking of somehow just putting her and the eggs outside somewhere but I don't want to disturb her.

I don’t know which weaver it is your guess is closest I can imagine. You might have to wait til the sack hatched to release the babies and the mom otherwise I don’t know how you could remove it without killing it. That’s the downside to wc spiders when you lay eggs. Same reason I never catch mantids, I can’t get those eggs to hatch. But spiders are easier to hatch out.

 

[Charliemum]

Would need a clearer pic to try n I.d. mum but garden spider baby's take a long time to hatch mum looks after the sac over winter and the baby's don't emerge till the following spring. They bunch up till they are ready to leave the web then they climb up to the highest point they can and they release a small amount of web and use it to float to their new area on the breeze this is called ballooning. Unfortunately mum will pass away before the baby's hatch but it is normal in the life of an orb weaver.
I have kept alot of my native sp of spiders and had successful eggsacks off alot of them, but orb weavers are one I release straight away as they need a larger area to make their web, need flying food and the baby's take a long long time to hatch. If you keep wild caught local spiders you must be prepared incase they do drop a sac which is always a possibility, and once they do there is no 'putting them back' not without putting the full viv somewhere safe outside where you know they will not be disturbed, rained on, or be stuck in full sun, which most can not do.
Really you have 2 options;
1.Look after the sac and release the baby's when they are ready.
2. Remove the sac and put mum back outside.
Personally I can't destroy sacs being a mum myself so I hatch them out. This isn't always ideal but I have had several sacs hatch in my care now, touch wood I have had 100% success rate.
Once the sac is close to hatching (it will get darker) put some thin stockings over the viv (or tights if that's your thing) it will stop all the baby's from escaping all over your home and once you see them trying to separate and balloon put the viv outside somewhere safe and let them do their thing.

Whatever you decide to do gl to you, mum, n those baby's .

 

[Redwizard000]

I'm going to keep taking care of her, and then in the spring when they hatch I will leave the terrarium out on the balcony, maybe hidden under something, so the babies can get away.