Please help! Wolf spider babies!

[Tarangela]

Hey all!

I have had a wolf spider in captivity for the past 2 months, and in that time she has produced an egg sac, and last night it opened, and they started coming out! It was amazing to watch!

They are mostly all out and hanging on all over he right now Very VERY cute! I just think that is so sweet! Anyway, what I need to know is, how does she care for them, feed them, etc.???

I can't find it anywhere on the site. I know they stay on her back for a while,
how LONG? When can I feed her? Will they starve? How are they provided for???????

I want to let her go pretty soon, w/ her babies, but I need to get some answers first.

Thanks, and I hope someone will let me know!

 

[ilovebugs]

I don't have much information. alittle advice though. don't get your fingers too close. I remember years ago I was stupid and messed around with a mother wolf spider, and ended up getting bit. it hurt, and I learned my lesson. haha

fruit flies or something would be good if they are even big enough for that.

 

[Tarangela]

I don't have much information. alittle advice though. don't get your fingers too close. I remember years ago I was stupid and messed around with a mother wolf spider, and ended up getting bit. it hurt, and I learned my lesson. haha

fruit flies or something would be good if they are even big enough for that.

I would NEVER put my hands near a wolf spider, much less a pregnant one. I have never done that.

I made a mistake about 3 years ago though, b/c of my ignorance. I had captured one that laid a sac about a week later. I let her keep it a few weeks, and one day I put a cricket in to make her let go of it for a sec and eat the cricket. When she did, I took the sac out and flushed it. She was dead 2 days later :8o I felt REALLY bad, and will never take their sacs from them again. I had no idea back then, that the babies stayed on their mother's backs for a time.