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Here's a little baby spider that my husband found a week or so ago hiding in the computer's keyboard, right behind the "tab" and "caps Lock" buttons.
He called me into the computer/spider/reptile room and said I better come and get this little guy or else he would squash it.
It's very, very little.... hence the blurry pics. I'd say that this little guy's body is 3/4 of a centimeter. I'm keeping it in a small sized plastic vial, with coconut fiber for the substrate, and a small zip-tie to climb up. It spends 80% of it's time on the inside of the lid, and the other 20% of the time clinging to the upper part of the vial's "sides".
I've been feeding it small, small crickets, and have never witnessed it eating. I do find half empty cricket carcasses the next day, though.
I know it's small, and the pictures arent the greatest, but if anyone can tell me more about this little specimen I'd be overjoyed. (Oh, by the way.... my husband knocked over the little vial a few days ago, and thought he killed the spider. In reality, the spider is alive and doing fine.... but is now missing a leg).
Once again, I'm so sorry the pictures arent more detailed or crisper....
I'm thinking that this baby is a little wolf spider, but wasnt sure because I thought that wolf spiders rarely climb, and are usually seen on the ground.
He called me into the computer/spider/reptile room and said I better come and get this little guy or else he would squash it.
It's very, very little.... hence the blurry pics. I'd say that this little guy's body is 3/4 of a centimeter. I'm keeping it in a small sized plastic vial, with coconut fiber for the substrate, and a small zip-tie to climb up. It spends 80% of it's time on the inside of the lid, and the other 20% of the time clinging to the upper part of the vial's "sides".
I've been feeding it small, small crickets, and have never witnessed it eating. I do find half empty cricket carcasses the next day, though.
I know it's small, and the pictures arent the greatest, but if anyone can tell me more about this little specimen I'd be overjoyed. (Oh, by the way.... my husband knocked over the little vial a few days ago, and thought he killed the spider. In reality, the spider is alive and doing fine.... but is now missing a leg).
Once again, I'm so sorry the pictures arent more detailed or crisper....
I'm thinking that this baby is a little wolf spider, but wasnt sure because I thought that wolf spiders rarely climb, and are usually seen on the ground.
