Growth and Development of Deinopis sp.
This blog will be my record of the development of some Deinopis spiderlings that I am rearing.
It all started with the capture of ‘mum’ at my work place in Perth, Western Australia. I had noticed an unusual spider around March 2013 outside our building at work and discovered it was a Net-casting Spider. These spiders are also known as Ogre-faced Spiders due to the huge, prominent eyes at the front of their head. They are pretty cool spiders, as they don’t build a web in which they sit and catch their prey, rather they create a ‘net’ which they attach to their front legs and cast over passing prey items.
Here is some further information on them from the Australian Museum.
