Latrodectus bishopi mating

[Brian S]

A few months ago I was fortunate enough to acquire a few L bishopi slings from another arachnid breeder. All the males grew up fast and all but 1 has died. I finally had my first female mature recently so after I fed her once I figured I better introduce her to a male while I still have 1 left. It seemed to go pretty well. The male tied her up with silk and had his way with her basically. I hope I can get several of these going in captivity soon. The pic looks like crap but they usually do when being taken thru a plastic vial

 

[Selenops]

Gems. Good luck Brian!

 

[tom]

latrodectus bishopi

Since this species is so rare alive in collections, I applaud you attempting to rear it in captivity ,rather than wild collect spiders.Let me know if you able to part with a fewspiders.Cheers, Tom

 

[Brian S]

Well it would appear that I already have an egg sac

 

[Selenops]

Awesome! Brian, I definitely want s'lings and yes, like the previous poster said, breeding the L. bishopi is ecologically beneficial too.

 

[Brian S]

I just hope its a good sac. I'm sure it wont take very long to find out

 

[swatc1h]

congrats :razz:

heatpad to heat emitters. i learned that after finding my L. tre sacs dead due to the cold element here. now i have tons of slings

 

[Brian S]

Its pretty warm in this room so I doubt temps will have any bearing on this.

 

[RodG]

Good luck with this breeding, Brian!!!

 

[SkorpNtrants]

congrats.

Are they short lived?

 

[Brian S]

Are they short lived?

Probably like other Latros in that they live 1-2 years. I have no previous experience with L bishopi so I am only going on what I have seen in L mactans/L variolus