I was expecting the female to stop eating and die after laying the egg sac, however today she spun a new net and was hunting and feeding again!

Note the reduced body size!

This morning I woke up to find her upside down and covering what I soon realised was an egg sac with silk! When I got home from work that evening she had moved it down to a twig near the bottom of the tank and anchored it down with silk.

A couple of videos that I grabbed with my phone - you can see in the second one that it is already changing colour from white to brown.

30th April - 10th May

 

She continued to feed well on the crickets, sometimes capturing and eating two in a day. She got larger and more 'swollen' over a couple of weeks and then stopped feeding around 10th May.

These photos were taken on 12th May.

A crop of those amazing eyes!

Note the eyes on the top of her head.