I've been feeding a basement dwelling feral female spider ( it's some type of species which makes a funnel type web) over that last couple of months.
She has gotten larger from the flightless fruit flies i have been supplying her with each day.
Over the past few days i have noticed that a male has come knocking, maybe trying to court little Miss Sunshine.
Here is a pic of the female (on top) and her male suitor.
And here is another pic...i'm only showing it because i noticed there was an ant in the upper left corner.
For those that aren't fans of spiders, these seem to be quite shy and unassuming, unlike the aggressive new species of spider/tarantula that is killing people in India.
http://www.examiner.com/article/spi...ive-spiders-panics-indian-town-leaving-2-dead
Here are a few shots of a spider that i have been feeding that lives right outside of our garage door.
This spider likes to come out and sun itself once the sun swings around in the late afternoon.
It has brown banded markings on its legs and a brown patch on its back that resembles a spearhead.
Today i fed it some D. melanogaster flightless fruit flies.
dvg
Last night, using the camera's flash, i was able to capture a couple of spiders on my tomato plant reacting well to an offering of D. hydei flightless fruit flies.
This orb weaver took the fly in the centre of its web, but probably because i was hovering overhead flashing pics, it quickly took it's prey and scurried over to the far edge of its web.
I was surprised at how quickly this spider was able to gnash its way through the fly's head as evidenced by the ever widening spacing of the fly's eyes, seemingly as fast and furious as any ravenous half-crazed zombie overdosed on bath salts.
Maybe macabre to us, but any debate over what twisted spin of the karmic wheel fated the spider with this incarnation is probably best left for humans to idly speculate over, because the spider efficiently goes about its business, without guilt, without hesitation and without remorse.
This next pic is interesting because it nicely highlights the front leg joints of this spider, eerily similar to some visage of a dark spectre's bony digit grimly beckoning the nearly departed to lift the veil and cross to the other side...
To end this session on a cheerier note, how about this ambitious little mighty mite of a spider quite willing and able take on and take down prey its own size.
I kinda feel obliged to applaud this little spider's effort and tenacity here.
dvg
She has gotten larger from the flightless fruit flies i have been supplying her with each day.
Over the past few days i have noticed that a male has come knocking, maybe trying to court little Miss Sunshine.
Here is a pic of the female (on top) and her male suitor.
And here is another pic...i'm only showing it because i noticed there was an ant in the upper left corner.
For those that aren't fans of spiders, these seem to be quite shy and unassuming, unlike the aggressive new species of spider/tarantula that is killing people in India.
http://www.examiner.com/article/spi...ive-spiders-panics-indian-town-leaving-2-dead
Here are a few shots of a spider that i have been feeding that lives right outside of our garage door.
This spider likes to come out and sun itself once the sun swings around in the late afternoon.
It has brown banded markings on its legs and a brown patch on its back that resembles a spearhead.
Today i fed it some D. melanogaster flightless fruit flies.
dvg
Last night, using the camera's flash, i was able to capture a couple of spiders on my tomato plant reacting well to an offering of D. hydei flightless fruit flies.
This orb weaver took the fly in the centre of its web, but probably because i was hovering overhead flashing pics, it quickly took it's prey and scurried over to the far edge of its web.
I was surprised at how quickly this spider was able to gnash its way through the fly's head as evidenced by the ever widening spacing of the fly's eyes, seemingly as fast and furious as any ravenous half-crazed zombie overdosed on bath salts.
Maybe macabre to us, but any debate over what twisted spin of the karmic wheel fated the spider with this incarnation is probably best left for humans to idly speculate over, because the spider efficiently goes about its business, without guilt, without hesitation and without remorse.
This next pic is interesting because it nicely highlights the front leg joints of this spider, eerily similar to some visage of a dark spectre's bony digit grimly beckoning the nearly departed to lift the veil and cross to the other side...
To end this session on a cheerier note, how about this ambitious little mighty mite of a spider quite willing and able take on and take down prey its own size.
I kinda feel obliged to applaud this little spider's effort and tenacity here.
dvg
