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.

Two days after moving in her new home she built a net and started hunting. She caught her first cricket and wrapped and consumed it. She wrapped it well in silk and took a few hours to suck all the juices out of it, before dropping the shrunken remains on the floor of the tank beneath her.

I took a trip to a pet store today and purchased a small glass tank to house the spider in. I also got a tub of small crickets for her to feed on. She seemed to quickly make herself at home amongst the twigs.

New home - the carrot is food for the crickets, not the spider!

I spotted another Net-casting Spider on the corner of our building at work, just outside the entrance door. The building was due to be sprayed for bugs soon, so I took her home as I was also interested in photographing her and watching her hunt.

She settled in quickly, capturing a moth I put in her temporary home within the first hour!


These were some quick iPhone shots, but it shows the net quite nicely.

Wrapping the prey.

Dinner time!