Minor spider updates and observations

One of my two false-widows (Steatoda grossa) laid her fourth eggsac that I found today.

There was a huge gap between her first and second sacs. Then the third came before I even removed the second from her enclosure. Now that they've hatched out, there's a fourth.

The juvies in sacs numbers two and three are tag-teaming the two pinheads I put in with each.

The one survivor from the first sac plumped up after a pinhead this morning.

My sac-bearing Latrodectus geometricus attacked an old food bolus instead of the cricket I offered her today.

I'm feeding my four virgin L. hesperus today (2.2.0) and I'm going to try mating them over the weekend.

I fed my mated L. geometricus a good-sized cricket today. She plumped up considerably. I hope she starts dropping sacs soon (she's a pale morph, compared to the dark one that's already given me one sac).

Thought I'd share.

Cheers

sweet. it'd be aweosme to have some widows.

Are they listed on DWA?

Hmmm.... not sure, will check later.

yes they are... not very popular because of there reputation

WEAK.

it's so weak it can't support it's own weight.

I looked up the full text of the DWA law . . . the only Theridiids listed are those in genus Latrodecuts, so false-widows are A-OK.

cool! I still don't know how I could get my hands on some.

look in your garden...

lol, the only thing alive in my garden is grass.


besides, there aren't any steatoda species present in scotland.

Calum, sometimes you're as dense as two short planks.

Mr. Mordax wrote:

One of my two false-widows (Steatoda grossa) laid her fourth eggsac that I found today.

There was a huge gap between her first and second sacs. Then the third came before I even removed the second from her enclosure. Now that they've hatched out, there's a fourth.

The juvies in sacs numbers two and three are tag-teaming the two pinheads I put in with each.

The one survivor from the first sac plumped up after a pinhead this morning.

?

Wait.. I think I get it... do I?

It means I might be able to send you some false-widows after they grow a bit, if you're interested.

Thats what I was thinking! after I reasdit twice and figured you'd have 12564739274+++ slings.


perhaps I am interested, mabye I could even breed them myself.

dont they live everywhere in the UK???
can u post some pics? i reckon i caught one this year and im interested what yours looks like (i dont trust google lol)
whats there care like?

I think they are only present on the southern half of britain.

wooo!!! go south!!

mwuhahahahaahaaaa!!!

I'll PM you later mike.

They're like a lot of spider species that you might find hanging out under furniture; give them something to build a web on and the occasional prey item and you're good to go.

They're in the same family as black widows, so they build similarly messy webs.

lol, one question already awnsered.

Mr. Mordax wrote:

so they build similarly messy webs.

so there not orb weavers? damn... so what the hell did i find???