I’m a foster mother to 100 baby spiders

Okay so the other day I was taking the trash out and my nail caught on a spider egg sac!

Unfortunately it split open and all the little eggs came tumbling out and luckily landed in a box.

After getting them all in a glass, I was left with several questions, no answers and guilt! But I asked in a few spider groups and got a tutorial on making a spider incubator!

Sooo! We went through a few different stages of mini Orbeez

And by mini I mean REALLY mini!

But finally we started seeing development!

See the little white dot?! That’s a wee lil baby!

Then more started showing up!

Then the day came!! Little legs started showing up!!

And then!!!

Today I just went to look and!!

!!!

MY BABIES ARE HATCHING!

greylilacs

Update

They’re perfect in every way and I love my dumb spider babies.

This is Joseph. He’s learning to walk properly.

He’s not very good at it yet though.

He try his best.

fortidogi

He has a fucking :3 on his face.

#spiders

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aprikota

vintar

hello i have learnt more spider facts

spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?
some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge
baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,
there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”
The Sky Is Full Of Spiders
there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating
there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100
some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters
some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds
some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…
guys i am literally about to cry over spider moms

i borrowed the book op cites from the library (biology of spiders by rainer f. foelix) because of this post and my two favourite new spider facts are

-they don’t just have an exoskeleton – they also have a secret partial inside skeleton

and

-you know the guy who gave spiders drugs and took pictures of their fucked up webs? he ended up studying them because his buddy was studying garden spiders and they spin webs at 2-5 am and his buddy was like, Ugh, fuck this, i want to sleep in, do you have anything i can give these spiders to make them spin webs at not two in the morning -and this guy, A Pharmacologist, was like, hell yea, here are some amphetamines for your spiders -and all those did was make the spiders spin some exceptionally weird webs at 2-5am -and i guess his buddy gave up in disgust at these spiders who wouldn’t let him sleep but mr. spider amphetamines was like, you know what, this is cool, i’m gonna keep going with this

i’ve never told a lie in my life

Pell ur a hero. Wtf

#spiders #biology #for SCIENCE

gfanz4ever

I’m back at my dad’s place for the weekend and tiny ants keep crawling across the floor--just one or two at a time, but enough over a two day period that you start to think “Okay, where are they coming in ??”

I didn't find their entrance hole, but I did find a delightful little boy in a web. It had at least fifteen ant bodies under it and one stuck in the web itself, so before I returned to my search I made sure to tell Georg Danielsen what a g’boy he is 😊

(He’s named after the Spiders Georg meme, and also Daniel Antslayer, who, despite being smaller than the ants he devoured, set up his web before the entrance to their lair and did his best to help keep our home pest-free while I still lived here two years ago. Rest in peace, you magnificent little multi-legged bastard)

#spiders #insects #me #arachnophobia tw

gfanz4ever

I know y’all are getting tired of my spider posts, but look! My Bittiboots in action :D

Not a lot of action, mind, but they did move.

#me #spiders #arachnophobia tw #video #videos

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gfanz4ever

My new apartment and neighborhood are absolutely full of spiders, and I could not be happier.

Like, there’s a big orby spider what has a web on the bike path bridge. There’s Bittiboots, the jumping spider who lives in my window, and the other night, I saw an absolutely GORGEOUS little lady on the NO SMOKING IN THE HALL sign in my building. Grey legs and a shiny white-and-silver abdomen, can you even imagine?

gfanz4ever

And then there’s this asshole:

I mean, yeah, I put that up there, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked up in the dark and nearly lost my shit because I forgot what that weird shape up there is.

#spiders #me #arachnophobia tw

gfanz4ever

My new apartment and neighborhood are absolutely full of spiders, and I could not be happier.

#arachnophobia tw #spiders #me

gfanz4ever

Update on the window spider

Today, for the first time, I saw Bittiboots hunt and catch prey!

You might or might not remember, but Bittiboots is the jumping spider what lives in my window and is the closest thing to a pet I'm allowed or able to have. Well, I opened the blinds for some light, and an even smaller spider fell out onto the ledge. Like a cat that's seen a bug on the floor, Bittiboots immediately locked on and began to stalk the smaller spider. Within 45 seconds, they caught it! Such a good hunter! So talented! So quick!

Bittiboots also appears to be getting bigger, which is also nice.

#me #spiders #arachnophobia tw

gfanz4ever

This is the teeny baby what lives in my bedroom window. You can't tell cause of the zoom, but this lil fella is small enough to fit on my thumbnail. Precious 😍

I call em Bittiboots, cause if they wore boots they'd have to be real itty bitty boots.

#spiders #me #arachnophobia tw

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thenixkat

buggirl

invertebrates

flygex-eatin-on-softies:

buggirl:

Look at this lovely girl! She arrived today from the Southeastern US. She is the golden silk spider, Nephila clavipes. The only species of this genus in the New World. Such a pretty animal. I wish they occurred in CA. I saw them often in the Amazon and it was always a treat.

I love these guys! See them all the time when I visit Florida <3

oh man, what a beautiful critter! i love banana spiders’ lil fuzzy legwarmers.

#she's beautiful!#spiders #arachnids

gfanz4ever

This adorable baby slipped into my house when I opened the door. Alas, my dad has a very “kill on sight” approach to spiders, so I had to get him back outside right quick. I don’t know what kind of spider this is, but I call him Bumbleboo; the pictures are misleading, the lighter bands are actually pale yellow like a bee.

#spiders #arachnophobia tw #arachnophobia

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gfanz4ever

Does anyone know who this lil beauty is? The pictures are bad, but they have a kind of dusty-looking abdomen and orange-tan legs. I call them Cortana :)

gfanz4ever

UPDATE: My dad is severely arachnophobic, so letting Cortana roam the central hallway probably isn’t a good idea (they’re fairly large and easy to spot). Right now Cortana is hiding on a shelf in my closet; if I can find them tomorrow morning, I can put them outside. My dad doesn’t let me open the outside doors at night for paranoia reasons.

#spiders #arachnophobia tw

gfanz4ever

Does anyone know who this lil beauty is? The pictures are bad, but they have a kind of dusty-looking abdomen and orange-tan legs. I call them Cortana :)

#spiders #arachnophobia

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thenixkat

theverge

World’s cutest male spider does embarrassing dance to impress cutest female spider.

adorablespiders

HOLY. SHIT.

#animals #spiders #gif warning

gfanz4ever

I had a dream last night that I had a soft little wolf spider for a pet. I cried because I lost it and it couldn't survive on its own because it was squishy like a beany baby.

#spiders