neville park on Nostr: #SpiderSunday: under a stone ledge, a cellar spider (family Pholcidae) clutches her ...
#SpiderSunday: under a stone ledge, a cellar spider (family Pholcidae) clutches her bundle of eggs.
Most spiders wrap eggs in sacs of protective silk and fix them to surfaces or hang them from a silk line. Some spiders carry their egg sacs around with them (e.g. Sparassidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae). Others have eggs lightly scattered over a leaf and covered with a few thin lines of silk, which they guard (e.g. some Salticidae). Cellar spiders like this, however, wrap their eggs very lightly into a ball and carry it in their jaws. Towards hatching, you will be able to see the baby spiders' legs forming inside the eggs as curved stripes.
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Most spiders wrap eggs in sacs of protective silk and fix them to surfaces or hang them from a silk line. Some spiders carry their egg sacs around with them (e.g. Sparassidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae). Others have eggs lightly scattered over a leaf and covered with a few thin lines of silk, which they guard (e.g. some Salticidae). Cellar spiders like this, however, wrap their eggs very lightly into a ball and carry it in their jaws. Towards hatching, you will be able to see the baby spiders' legs forming inside the eggs as curved stripes.
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