Great Basin Ben
Arachnosquire
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2010
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Hey there to all of you Widow fans. I have been actively pursuing my interest in keeping Widow species for the past month or so. I live in Reno, NV, and have caught over 2 dozen, while casually wandering around the warehouse that I work at. Today, however, I just caught my FIRST, male. That's rougly a 20 to 1 Female to Male ratio.
I, by no means assert, that this is ACTUALLY the biological ratio, but males seem NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to find, while the females, seem to simply be everywhere! Have any of you documented this, or have any info on actual biological data, of this sort of thing. I find it hard to believe that an eggsack of over 1,000 sling, would have as few as 50-100 males in it. However, the frequency in which I come across them, seems to be about this much.
Does anyone have any ideas, or input to add to this??? MUCH APPRECIATION fo looking and contributing.
All the best,
Ben.
I, by no means assert, that this is ACTUALLY the biological ratio, but males seem NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to find, while the females, seem to simply be everywhere! Have any of you documented this, or have any info on actual biological data, of this sort of thing. I find it hard to believe that an eggsack of over 1,000 sling, would have as few as 50-100 males in it. However, the frequency in which I come across them, seems to be about this much.
Does anyone have any ideas, or input to add to this??? MUCH APPRECIATION fo looking and contributing.
All the best,
Ben.