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First some pic reposts to get the subject a rollin'.
This is the pirate spider I found in the "wastelands" (cacoseraph's backyard hunt :Rockon: )
Found it sucking away at this ...I will guess a male L.hesperus. She was still feeding on it when I got her home.
And here are the mystery sacs we found ...they were very common out there.
One of these sacs was already hatched and the other hatched a couple of days ago. Slings are beyond tiny and I had a hell of a time trying to transfer them to a more observable container. Not sure how many I got transfered or how many are running round my room. I will guess that the sac had 8...maybe 12 slings, but they are so small its easy to miss them.
Ok.. been keeping the pirate in a small "enclosure" with some root base. No significant webbing ...just hung around waiting for something. Attempted to feed her the usual feeders and a couple spiders, but no go.
But... she produced a sac! Maybe the wastelands mystery sacs are not so much a mystery anymore?
Now she really needed to eat. I placed a S.grossa into a plastic box and let it web up a bit for a day. Not much webbbing but enough (hopefully) for the pirate to do her stuff.
Left the box on my photoshoot stand and today when looking at it from a distance, I saw what looked like the grossa eating the Mimetidae, but actually turns out everything went as planned. ance:
Ok... time for a real photoshoot. Hopefully I will get to it very soon... hate to loose the pirate to old age before I can have fun.
I think latrodectus should be her next potential victim.
I also need to figure out what to feed these slings. They are tiny.. half the size of the smallest of fruitflies. Mites and spider slings may very well be what they normally feed on, but who knows. ?
This is the pirate spider I found in the "wastelands" (cacoseraph's backyard hunt :Rockon: )
Found it sucking away at this ...I will guess a male L.hesperus. She was still feeding on it when I got her home.
And here are the mystery sacs we found ...they were very common out there.
One of these sacs was already hatched and the other hatched a couple of days ago. Slings are beyond tiny and I had a hell of a time trying to transfer them to a more observable container. Not sure how many I got transfered or how many are running round my room. I will guess that the sac had 8...maybe 12 slings, but they are so small its easy to miss them.
Ok.. been keeping the pirate in a small "enclosure" with some root base. No significant webbing ...just hung around waiting for something. Attempted to feed her the usual feeders and a couple spiders, but no go.
But... she produced a sac! Maybe the wastelands mystery sacs are not so much a mystery anymore?
Now she really needed to eat. I placed a S.grossa into a plastic box and let it web up a bit for a day. Not much webbbing but enough (hopefully) for the pirate to do her stuff.
Left the box on my photoshoot stand and today when looking at it from a distance, I saw what looked like the grossa eating the Mimetidae, but actually turns out everything went as planned. ance:
Ok... time for a real photoshoot. Hopefully I will get to it very soon... hate to loose the pirate to old age before I can have fun.
I think latrodectus should be her next potential victim.
I also need to figure out what to feed these slings. They are tiny.. half the size of the smallest of fruitflies. Mites and spider slings may very well be what they normally feed on, but who knows. ?