Interesting Black Widow Spiderling...
- Thread starter Amerikanvandel
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I see them all the time here in AZ!
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OK hear me out, I am starting to think this can happen for any sp of spider.
I have found Tegenaria around my home with the same colour combo, dark body abnormality light abdomen, it's like the axanthic gene in snakes, maybe the spider version of ?
But my point being it happens in other spiders not just her.
I found Oscar (the Tetchy) in my grass bin some of the ppl on here helped me find out what he was actually
but I left him as he was a penultimate male, hoping he would breed n make more buckskin Tetchy baby's for me. That was 2/3 years ago and I think I just found his great great grandchild in my kitchen a few weeks bk .
A small Tetchy but once again so light in colour n markings I am convinced he had to come from Oscar, and while this story seems pointless my point is that if Oscar passed on the colouration to his offspring Pearly girly may be able to pass hers on too
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Oscar the grouch n Elmo for reference
It will be interesting if you breed her to see if my theory is correct and this is the spider version of the axanthic gene and it can be passed down.
I have also kept Elmo to see if they also keep this colouration and if it can be passed onto offspring.
I have found Tegenaria around my home with the same colour combo, dark body abnormality light abdomen, it's like the axanthic gene in snakes, maybe the spider version of ?
But my point being it happens in other spiders not just her.
I found Oscar (the Tetchy) in my grass bin some of the ppl on here helped me find out what he was actually
but I left him as he was a penultimate male, hoping he would breed n make more buckskin Tetchy baby's for me. That was 2/3 years ago and I think I just found his great great grandchild in my kitchen a few weeks bk . A small Tetchy but once again so light in colour n markings I am convinced he had to come from Oscar, and while this story seems pointless my point is that if Oscar passed on the colouration to his offspring Pearly girly may be able to pass hers on too
. Oscar the grouch n Elmo for reference
It will be interesting if you breed her to see if my theory is correct and this is the spider version of the axanthic gene and it can be passed down.
I have also kept Elmo to see if they also keep this colouration and if it can be passed onto offspring
.