Sun Maid has an egg sack

this is straight from my post on VL because I'm tired and lazy:

so I woke up a little late to get to the office today but I checked on all my kiddos as usual an discovered that Sun Maid has got an egg sack with her. mind you I don't really care much for true spiders but I caught her while doing a demolition job and decided to keep her around until someone came along that wanted her. I don't know much about keeping false widows or caring for them with egg sacks so I hope that I'm doing it right. if any of you want her & her kids....wink, wink...drop me a line and she can be yours.




yes, I finally got the species correct. thanx Mike!!!

Sun Maid?

~Abyss~ wrote:

Sun Maid?

she's housed in a Sun Maid chocolate covered raisin container and looks like a chocolate covered raisin

Oh...sounds delicious.

Sweet!

By the way, are you sure she's a Latro? She looks a lot like my false widows.

IHeartMantids wrote:

Sweet!

By the way, are you sure she's a Latro? She looks a lot like my false widows.

thanx, I fixed that

Cool cool. I just noticed she looked really similar, and one of my two had an eggsac a few weeks ago -- 'bout 60 babies came out when I opened it.

how did you screen off the air holes? I figure I could stick stocking material to the inside of the lid to prevent sling escape

That's exactly what I did. I took it out after a week or so and put it in its own vial with some nylon beneath the lid.

cool! the 1i's must be tiny

yeah, I'm not really looking forward to it. she's made a massive web structure around the egg sack so removing it is going to be a task

is it a 'must' to remove the 1st instars?

I'm just going to remove the whole egg sack in a wk

Sounds like a good plan. I got impatient with mine and opened it up when I could see there were slings in it -- then about sixty or so spilled out.

Now they're darkened up and just as skittish as the adults.

yeah I went out and got a 1"x1"x2.5x" cube yesterday while working on some new enclosures

who wants some Steatoda grossa slings? yep, Sun Maid's kids are here.

Nice! Just wait a couple weeks -- mine have webbed their vial into what looks like an arachno-apartment complex.

rad

dammit, Sun Maid left another egg sack for me to come home to this wknd!!!!!

Nice! Neither of mine have dropped another sac.

I've seen spiders minding multiple sacks before but not after one sack has burst to life. I guess it's back to the hobby lobby to get another little 1x1x2 cube

she's just a regular egg factory. I got another egg sack overnight. this brings me up to 3 from her and one from one of the new S. grossas. yep, it's safe to say I have too many false widows but at least I've got two bloodlines from two different regions/biota within the county

nice, man! how much are these spiders worth?

false widows in england?....eek!