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How do y'all Widow keepers keep those critters? After looking for one for the past two years, I finally came across a smallish female L. mactans in the pantry, not where I was expecting to find one, mind you, but nonetheless, I found her...fortunately before putting my hand on her or doing something that might have otherwise ended rather badly for both of us. I put her in a tall clear Tupperware cup with a lid, and put in a forked twig for her to climb on and start constructing a web, but after balling up and playing dead for about four hours, she just climbed up to the very top and sort of plastered herself right under the lid. I've kept House Spiders(Archaranea or recently changed to Parasteatoda) and Steatodas, and they wasted no time getting a web started, but she's been in the container for three days now,and hasn't moved from that "Pokie" position up at the very top. That's gonna make feeding her problematic, since whatever food items I put in are going to wind up on the bottom, while she's at the top, with no web for them to get caught up in.
pitbulllady
pitbulllady