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Bug tour part 1: Starting with spiders!

This is going to be a series of posts to show my current invertebrates

I will start with my 3 baby T. georgicola. These are the offspring of my late wolf spider, Zorua. They were all born 7/1/23

The first baby is Aspera.

She is a very confident spider with very pretty coloration. She is the largest of my spiders, which is odd because I feed them all at the same time.

The second baby spider is Fel.

I originally picked them out because they looked the most like their mother. She was the first to take down live food instead of the pre-killed mealworm I was offering when they were tiny. She loves food and has even attacked the tweezers when I dropped food in because she mistook it for food.

The last of my 3 baby T. georgicola is Leto.

She looks very similar to Aspera and while I originally selected the babies I'm keeping in hopes of having them all look different I really like this coloration. I am not sure if they will keep this coloration as they age or not. She is also very food motivated and is a bit more shy than the other two.

I do have a fourth baby wolf spider but they are not one of Zoruas babies. I think they are a Hogna species. I have not named this one yet.

This baby burrows a lot more than my other wolf spiders. I have them in a smaller display enclosure and I like being able to look over and see them.

My next spider is an old black widow named Doris

She is the first widow that I ever caught and I am very fond of her since black widows are some of my favorite inverts. She did not used to have any white on her but as she's aged and laid eggsacks, she's gotten more white. She also had 24 babies hatch today.

The next spiders I will show are Doris' babies.

There are 24 total. I originally crushed a lot of the eggsack in hope only like 5 or 10 would hatch out because I cannot care for a hundred baby widows at the moment. 24 is better than 100 though. I will probably leave them together for a bit and they might cannibalize each other but once I notice them cannibalizing I will separate them.

My last spider is a baby fishing spider named Pebble.

Pebble is a bit of a challenging spider. I have her set up with a little water container and some fake leaves to chill on and she will be upgraded as she grows. I can only ever get her to eat moths and not mealworms or darkling beetles and I've never caught her eating, I've just seen her prey dead.

That wraps up the first part of my bug tour, my pet spiders. I am going to start writing the next part now.