Pics from last year's batch: http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=63651
A few of them are already fully grown, and all the webs contain one male and one female (I also witnessed two of them mating. Was very funny, watching the male get flicked away about 10 times before finally making it in). The one in the video and pictures is the biggest, and has set up camp on the front porch stairs. Though, it's a little higher up off the ground, so you don't have to duck around it to get past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biINr5WO3eE
At first it got absolutely no repsonse when I threw the mealworm into the web. So, I reached my hand in, and tapped the web. The spider dropped about a foot almost instantly. I just barely managed to record it in time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmKmi9ac0c
Now here's a really cool one. It shows the spider slowly descending towards the grub, injecting it with venom, pulling it out of the web, returning to the center, then wrapping it up and eating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5r_q_akiw
And here's an oh-so small, yet VERY determined male, attempting to mate with a reluctant female. They had been going at it all morning. He'd approach, she'd push him away. He'd wait, then repeat.
I'll be posting more pics and videos as I take 'em. I'm gonna try and get it eating different things (Beetles are next on the list)
Also, I wanted to share this pic with you guys, and get your opinion on it. It looks to be a relative of my spider (The golden silk in the web, and the way it looks) and I THINK I've heard that Golden Orb Weavers have been known to catch birds... but still... this is insane:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/11/61575/SPider Bird.PNG
Is something like that really possible?
A few of them are already fully grown, and all the webs contain one male and one female (I also witnessed two of them mating. Was very funny, watching the male get flicked away about 10 times before finally making it in). The one in the video and pictures is the biggest, and has set up camp on the front porch stairs. Though, it's a little higher up off the ground, so you don't have to duck around it to get past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biINr5WO3eE
At first it got absolutely no repsonse when I threw the mealworm into the web. So, I reached my hand in, and tapped the web. The spider dropped about a foot almost instantly. I just barely managed to record it in time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmKmi9ac0c
Now here's a really cool one. It shows the spider slowly descending towards the grub, injecting it with venom, pulling it out of the web, returning to the center, then wrapping it up and eating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5r_q_akiw
And here's an oh-so small, yet VERY determined male, attempting to mate with a reluctant female. They had been going at it all morning. He'd approach, she'd push him away. He'd wait, then repeat.
I'll be posting more pics and videos as I take 'em. I'm gonna try and get it eating different things (Beetles are next on the list)
Also, I wanted to share this pic with you guys, and get your opinion on it. It looks to be a relative of my spider (The golden silk in the web, and the way it looks) and I THINK I've heard that Golden Orb Weavers have been known to catch birds... but still... this is insane:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/11/61575/SPider Bird.PNG
Is something like that really possible?
