Ah Lee
Arachnosquire
- Joined
- May 30, 2020
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Back to the good ol' office
The new company location didn't seem to please Pepper much. The human slave is always either playing music or gaming, and complaining about poo on his computer.
Pepper decided to close the office down, and like all responsible CEOs, she ate the company. First she ate the hub. Then the anchor lines. Then the barrier web. Some lines she just cut, and one ended up on Coffee's web, which an annoyed Coffee promptly removed.
It was a very clean job, and by the time she was done only a few lines remained.
She made the great journey again, right back to where she started.
It's a good thing I didn't move the UV light, she's now parked back right in front of it. Again she has built the same kind of web, the ones with really large holes, and its about the size of the one she built as a kid.
She's really skinny from her egg-laying, so I fed her a butterfly and a dragonfly, and she's looking better now.
Her colors have really darkened since her last molt, but when lit from behind, her reds still really pop.
Her coloration still really baffles me, I have never seen this color morph in the wild before, especially not the half-gold carapace.
Getting closer to an answer
Last month I had the chance to see Pepper rebuild her web, and I think I have a better idea of what's going on.
This is her building her web.
And this is her attempting to fill them in afterwards.
You can see she's attempting to do something, but no silk is coming out. All I see afterwards is a little bit of glue/web wherever she tried to weave.
So could it be that she cannot weave a proper web anymore? And why? Possibly something missing in her diet? I can't think of what an orbweaver might eat that I am not providing, but pollen is once again high on my list of suspicions.
I am supplementing her diet with pollen-laced insects now. I've been doing it for the last week, so I'll keep observing if it makes any difference.
The new company location didn't seem to please Pepper much. The human slave is always either playing music or gaming, and complaining about poo on his computer.
Pepper decided to close the office down, and like all responsible CEOs, she ate the company. First she ate the hub. Then the anchor lines. Then the barrier web. Some lines she just cut, and one ended up on Coffee's web, which an annoyed Coffee promptly removed.
It was a very clean job, and by the time she was done only a few lines remained.
She made the great journey again, right back to where she started.
It's a good thing I didn't move the UV light, she's now parked back right in front of it. Again she has built the same kind of web, the ones with really large holes, and its about the size of the one she built as a kid.
She's really skinny from her egg-laying, so I fed her a butterfly and a dragonfly, and she's looking better now.
Her colors have really darkened since her last molt, but when lit from behind, her reds still really pop.
Her coloration still really baffles me, I have never seen this color morph in the wild before, especially not the half-gold carapace.
Getting closer to an answer
Last month I had the chance to see Pepper rebuild her web, and I think I have a better idea of what's going on.
This is her building her web.
And this is her attempting to fill them in afterwards.
You can see she's attempting to do something, but no silk is coming out. All I see afterwards is a little bit of glue/web wherever she tried to weave.
So could it be that she cannot weave a proper web anymore? And why? Possibly something missing in her diet? I can't think of what an orbweaver might eat that I am not providing, but pollen is once again high on my list of suspicions.
I am supplementing her diet with pollen-laced insects now. I've been doing it for the last week, so I'll keep observing if it makes any difference.