Little Spiders?
Observing my little pet spider, while also entertaining during boring days, also provides some surprises.
First, it occasionally destroys its web to rebuild it. More than once I thought it was moving or that something had destroyed the web, just ro realise later that it was all the spider's own doing.
Strangely enough, the days when it destroys its web are the days when I have more problems with little insects inside my room... coincidence?
Some other day I found a different scene...
Now what's happening? Do spiders change skins?
Oh, wait, both parts are moving...
Two spiders? Yep.
Ok, so what the hell are they doing?
My best guess after watching the show for a while is that I was a voyeur watching the ritual to create little spiders...
After I returned from my classes that day, the show was over, and both spiders were there. The female (I believe it's the bigger one that was here from the beginning) destroying the web (again). But the male is not moving...
I would like to know what happened. At first it looked like it was protecting the eggs (it was a long time ago since my Biology classes in high school, so I suppose spiders lay eggs...), but the next day there was only spider #1 with a new web... and no signs of eggs whatsoever.
I was considering aborting my observation studies and shooing the spiders if there were eggs... You know, a bunch of spiders like that is not the nicest thing to have at one's veranda. Besides, rooms here are for one person only (in theory at least), so I couldn't have an entire family as neighbors (heh...). But there is no evidence so far that little spiders may be on the way... or what happened to spider #2. If it had died, I think it would be laying somewhere on the floor, what didn't happen.
Well, back to observation. It's more interesting than I thought...
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Added on Jul 5th
After looking better, I found spider #2 corpse. It was at a place where it couldn't be if it only had fallen from the web. It either walked there or was transported. I wonder what happened... Is that spider some sort of black widow when it comes to mating?
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Added on Jul 6th
After a comment telling that spiders do change skins I decided to recheck the evidence I had. So it might have been just an exoskeleton change after all... The movement might have been because of the wind. What's felt of the "corpse" really looks more like an empty exoskeleton, and it explains why I've seen no eggs... But I can't really say for sure. I hope it happens again, so I can find that out.
Living and learning... and I hope it teaches me to be more analytic before drawing to conclusions.
First, it occasionally destroys its web to rebuild it. More than once I thought it was moving or that something had destroyed the web, just ro realise later that it was all the spider's own doing.
Strangely enough, the days when it destroys its web are the days when I have more problems with little insects inside my room... coincidence?
Some other day I found a different scene...
Now what's happening? Do spiders change skins?
Oh, wait, both parts are moving...
Two spiders? Yep.
Ok, so what the hell are they doing?
My best guess after watching the show for a while is that I was a voyeur watching the ritual to create little spiders...
After I returned from my classes that day, the show was over, and both spiders were there. The female (I believe it's the bigger one that was here from the beginning) destroying the web (again). But the male is not moving...
I would like to know what happened. At first it looked like it was protecting the eggs (it was a long time ago since my Biology classes in high school, so I suppose spiders lay eggs...), but the next day there was only spider #1 with a new web... and no signs of eggs whatsoever.
I was considering aborting my observation studies and shooing the spiders if there were eggs... You know, a bunch of spiders like that is not the nicest thing to have at one's veranda. Besides, rooms here are for one person only (in theory at least), so I couldn't have an entire family as neighbors (heh...). But there is no evidence so far that little spiders may be on the way... or what happened to spider #2. If it had died, I think it would be laying somewhere on the floor, what didn't happen.
Well, back to observation. It's more interesting than I thought...
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Added on Jul 5th
After looking better, I found spider #2 corpse. It was at a place where it couldn't be if it only had fallen from the web. It either walked there or was transported. I wonder what happened... Is that spider some sort of black widow when it comes to mating?
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Added on Jul 6th
After a comment telling that spiders do change skins I decided to recheck the evidence I had. So it might have been just an exoskeleton change after all... The movement might have been because of the wind. What's felt of the "corpse" really looks more like an empty exoskeleton, and it explains why I've seen no eggs... But I can't really say for sure. I hope it happens again, so I can find that out.
Living and learning... and I hope it teaches me to be more analytic before drawing to conclusions.
3 comments:
oh watch out igor...u might have a man eater on ur hands!
humm... Actually, some friends of mine also had a spider. And the spider does change skin. Just like a way to grown, or something like that. But I don´t know... both spiders moving? Maybe you had an intruder and your spider just killed it and tried to hide the body... Watch out... =P
Hum... you know, now that you said that, it looks like it could have been just a skin change after all. I'll look after it better later.
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