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CW: Jumping spider updates
I can't talk about a #Spood without also providing updates on the jumpers.
Claudia, may she rest in peace, is preserved in IPA in a small jar nowadays. Some of her clutches have definitely survived. Not counting the escape artists, or the wild clutches, we have Sam and Ivy. They're too small for "proper" portraits, but I'm going to try and come back to them in a future post. Sam is a lil chubby. Ivy is a lil wobbly.
The one currently pictured is Missy, short for "Lil Miss can't pick a fucking name" (reference to Hazbin Hotel). She hitchhiked on my person one day and clearly felt I was taking her to safety. Which wasn't exactly wrong. She's spoiled and gets to eat many flightless fruit flies, and mealworms and also clutches of unfertilized eggs. She never nated, so she'll lay eggsacs that don't hatch, and then brood for a few weeks before coming out of her ever growing hammock network. She's _fat_ nowadays. And she's very entertaining when hunting flies and worms.
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#CW for #Spider #JumpingSpider and #Mealworm
Claudia has been brooding super hard for a while and she deserved a special treat. I was pleased with this video clip of her getting a mealworm.
Yes, she is indeed named after the character in Interview with the Vampire.
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Today in itsy-bitsy, incy-wincy #spooder doings - I'm beginning to spot #AraneusDiadematus spiderlings around the garden. I found this one on the tip of a #clematis leaf.
By autumn the surviving females will be grand gravid beauties, their namesake mottled cross marking evident on their large orange abdomens. They'll be hanging out at the center of their magnificent orb webs or carefully tucked just out of sight, a single elegant claw hooked onto a signal line alerting them the moment something touches their web.
But right now, while they're all so incredibly small and translucent, I'd swear they're made of at least 50% sunlight.
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #CrownedOrbWeaver #CrossSpider
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CW: Spider photo