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So.. what spiders have moved into your spider room voluntarily?
I get the usual vistors ...mostly male grossa, hesps and some local funnel and ground dwellers. I also get a lot of yellow sacs and some others that seem related.
I am most interested in the ones that come in to stay. But first an interesting guest..
While shooting my tred mating this male hesp came out of nowhere and desperately tried to climb the glass to get some action. ...yes...the deviant side of me was more than temped to just pop him into the other tred enclosure. I am really not against cross-breeding, but some genes are just two hard to get to waste on the curious whims of this silly human.
Pic is bad because my shutter speed was too slow for his "high on crack" behavior.
These are everywhere out here ...and probably across the nation. I always see them when housepainting or plastering walls. They are a a few mm big at best. Very curious hunting method. They run circles around their prey ...really fast and tight ...wrapping dinner up like winding up a spool of thread. Each stakes out 3 to 5 ft of wall space...preferring to live where the ceiling and walls meet. I have a colony in my spider room ...I counted around 10 last time I looked around (while hunting escaped geo slings ...
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I plan on experimenting with these soon. I want to find out how good these are at escaped sling control. I also want to see if they are at all communal if forced to be.
I have never taken the time to ID them. Any ideas??
Here is another... similar... may be the same species, but its way darker. So small that its is hard to compare.
I find these wandering my floor and walls, but not as often.
This one scared the crap out of me. It was hanging underneath my geo enclosure. I picked up the enclosure to get a better look because I have not seen two of my geos out of their hides for a spell. When you are concentrating hard on finding a spider...esp one that can potentially make your day interesting ...and suddenly you feel a spider of the same size racing up your arm ...well, anyway the little fkr took me by surprise.
I keep running into him every night. Last night I found him feeding on a escaped cricket in the middle of my floor. I hope a female wanders in, so a line of crix killers is started within my room!
I get the usual vistors ...mostly male grossa, hesps and some local funnel and ground dwellers. I also get a lot of yellow sacs and some others that seem related.
I am most interested in the ones that come in to stay. But first an interesting guest..
While shooting my tred mating this male hesp came out of nowhere and desperately tried to climb the glass to get some action. ...yes...the deviant side of me was more than temped to just pop him into the other tred enclosure. I am really not against cross-breeding, but some genes are just two hard to get to waste on the curious whims of this silly human.
Pic is bad because my shutter speed was too slow for his "high on crack" behavior.
These are everywhere out here ...and probably across the nation. I always see them when housepainting or plastering walls. They are a a few mm big at best. Very curious hunting method. They run circles around their prey ...really fast and tight ...wrapping dinner up like winding up a spool of thread. Each stakes out 3 to 5 ft of wall space...preferring to live where the ceiling and walls meet. I have a colony in my spider room ...I counted around 10 last time I looked around (while hunting escaped geo slings ...
)I plan on experimenting with these soon. I want to find out how good these are at escaped sling control. I also want to see if they are at all communal if forced to be.
I have never taken the time to ID them. Any ideas??
Here is another... similar... may be the same species, but its way darker. So small that its is hard to compare.
I find these wandering my floor and walls, but not as often.
This one scared the crap out of me. It was hanging underneath my geo enclosure. I picked up the enclosure to get a better look because I have not seen two of my geos out of their hides for a spell. When you are concentrating hard on finding a spider...esp one that can potentially make your day interesting ...and suddenly you feel a spider of the same size racing up your arm ...well, anyway the little fkr took me by surprise.
I keep running into him every night. Last night I found him feeding on a escaped cricket in the middle of my floor. I hope a female wanders in, so a line of crix killers is started within my room!
