Needing Advice Concerning My Audax Female

[LadyShia77]

Hello, again. I think I asked about this before, but not completely sure. A little over a week ago, my first Audax female (Artemis for those who remember me talking about her) webbed herself up in her hideaway. The day before yesterday, she finally emerged. She came out long enough to eat her cricket and has spent most of her time in her webbed up hideaway. Prior to webbing up her hideaway, she would make her rounds in her enclosure and walk all over it throughout the day. I thought she molted, but I haven't seen any discarded skins. I, also, considered the possibility of her laying an egg sac inside, but I don't know if that is normal Audax behavior. Her abdomen was huge before she webbed herself inside and it is definitely smaller now. Let me know what you guys think. Below are pics of her webbed up hideaway. The only difference between these pics and now is that she goes in and out now. The webbing has pretty much stayed the same. Thanks in advance.

 

[regalpaws]

Yeah she probably molted, and it may take a few days before she kicks out the molt. It is possible that she laid a sac since you said her abdomen has been huge and is smaller since the nest building, but that is also common with molting - they get too plump and need a change of clothes lol. What makes me wonder if she molted is that she ate right away and is also not guarding her nest; usually they will not leave that egg sac's side for weeks.

 

[LadyShia77]

It appears Artemis laid an egg sac after all. Not sure of the time frame, but around the time she webbed up her hideaway, she also was working on an egg sac. There were babies in the webbing inside the hideaway as well as in the sac on the outside.