Huntsman help - breeding age

[Miss Muso]

I'm doing a school assignment at the moment on the glorious creature known as a huntsman. I've basically finished the assignment, and now know an awful lot about sparassids, but I can't find out ANYWHERE at what age they become sexually mature! I have googled and googled and I have read through umpteen books, looked at dozens of sites, but nowhere is it mentioned. With the exception of the Dancing White Lady Spider of Namibia.
There is a multitude of information on other spiders, but none on sparassids, specifically Heteropoda cervina. If anyone could help me it would be absolutely fantastic.

Thanks, mel

 

[syndicate]

these might help with some info.also mabey you could contact Stefan on here.he seems to know alot about these spiders

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15847343
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/huntsman/Huntsman.html

 

[Irks]

I'm pretty sure it's the last molt that they become sexually mature. My Heteropoda venatoria's didn't start laying egg-sacks till their last adult molt.

 

[Pulk]

they become mature after a certain or roughly certain number of molts. the amount of time this takes can vary a HUGE amount based on how much food they get and the temperature... so saying anything but a very rough amount of time to maturity, or a range, is misleading.