S. grossa

[LeilaNami]

My friend caught be a beautiful S. grossa female for me at our work. He's trying to make up for my idiot coworker killing my two Latro females. She threw the deli cup in the air and let it hit the ground so they ruptured. I tried explaining to her that she just killed two gorgeous animals...MY animals that I planned to take home...and she just laughed and tried to describe to me how they looked as they died. I just walked away.

Anyway, I have this S. grossa now. I did have two but I hit a pothole driving home and she ruptured. I did get a huge eggsac out of the remaining female. She's so chocolate brown that you can only just slightly see the markings on her back.

 

[Jer]

Ive never heard of spiders rupturing before. Do they like explode or what?

 

[Widowman10]

Ive never heard of spiders rupturing before. Do they like explode or what?

their abdomens are soft, so the contents kinda spill out and leak everywhere. you hit a water balloon hard enough, the water's gonna go everywhere.

 

[LeilaNami]

In reality these animals a very fragile and a small fall or a good bump can cause their abdomen to rupture. Hemolymph (did I spell that right?) doesn't have clotting properties from what I understand and so they bleed out.

 

[Jer]

I tried pretty hard and cannot get a Steatoda borealis to rupture.

 

[Widowman10]

I tried pretty hard and cannot get a Steatoda borealis to rupture.

what does that mean?!?!

haha, either way, sounds like someone is not trying hard enough in their abdomen rupturing tests...

 

[Jer]

Lol, apart from straight up throwing it against a wall I have concluded it is impossible to rupture a Steatoda borealis. For that reason I find it infinitely impossible to believe that hitting a pothole while driving would rupture a spider.

 

[Mr. Mordax]

Ahem . . . to go back on topic, and not rub-in the loss of two beautiful spiders any more . . . :evil:

That sounds like an awesome spider, Leila. My fiancee and I each found one a couple months ago and both times we mistook them for widows at first. . No sacs yet.