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4 April13 - My tiny spider friend captured another moth in her web tonight. (Pictures 1 & 2). She sits right on her eggs all the time to keep them safe, since they are exposed to everything around her. Hopefully I can catch a shot of her babies when they hatch. 9April13 - She is still guarding her eggs (Picture 3). 12April13 - She is still guarding her eggs (Picture 4). 13April13 - The mother spider has disappeared. I don't know if she just left or was eaten. When disturbed, she runs off to different part of the web to distract a potential predator away from her eggs. Maybe she was captured (Picture 5). 21Abril13 - The eggs are hatching. I photographed the eggs to check up on them and also captured a new baby without realizing it. The hatchling looks very much like the mother, but is about half a millimeter in size (Picture 6).
Garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.
Tiny Spider (Part 1): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/195... Tiny Spider (Part 2): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/204...
Spotted on Apr 4, 2013
Submitted on Apr 5, 2013
3 Comments
Updated this spotting to the hatching of the eggs (4 through 21 Abril 2013).
It looks like a mini, mini orb weaver, but the web is a tangled jumble of threads and she has her eggs loose and exposed in a glob of webbing. You can see the web in Part 2.
Wonder what kind of spider it is?Tiny,round abdomen with markings, What kind of web is it?