The most incredible video I've shot.....>>>>

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Greetings,
Well I caught my Widow in the act of constructing an egg sac so I brought out the digital video camera and compressed the two hour process into two minutes of video. I am likely not too far off in believing this may be the only footage of a Black Widow constructing an egg sac (when you take into account how small the probability of people keeping fertilised Widows in captivity, coupled with the freak occurence that she started construction while I was watching her and I just happened to have my camera and tripod handy).
Anyway, click the link and it should stream for you, and turn up the volume (it has a soundtrack): Egg Sac
Ryan
P.S. You'll notice that she lost a tiny bit of her eggs, as such I am letting this egg sac hatch out because there should only be about 50 eggs in there.
Edit: if it won't stream, go here and save the video to your hard drive..... enjoy!

[rattler keeper]

Will not work 4 me

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See my edited post.....
Cheers

[spidergecko]

Very nice! The music was driving me nuts, though

[Oliverian]

Thats awesome! I actually thought the music went quite well with what was going on. You're probably right, I don't think there are a lot of widow egg sac videos out there. Very well done!

-TammyR

[Oliverian]

Oh yea, forgot to ask... I've heard that male widows look a lot different than female widows. I always figured the females were large and black, and the males were small and brownish, and looked almost nothing like the females. Is this true?

-TammyR

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Originally posted by spidergecko
Very nice! The music was driving me nuts, though

I know eh? I figured there's no real precedence when it comes to music-to-construct-an-egg-sac-by so I figured the selection was very fitting for the motions she goes through while building the sac!
Cheers,
R

[rattler keeper]

Yes very cool,music a little annoying

[Tortoise man]

ooh hoo eww hoo who LOL That was awsome thans R.M

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Originally posted by Oliverian
Oh yea, forgot to ask... I've heard that male widows look a lot different than female widows. I always figured the females were large and black, and the males were small and brownish, and looked almost nothing like the females. Is this true?

-TammyR

Hi Tammy,
Black Widows are extremely sexually dimorphic. Males are almost unrecognizable to most people (as they do not exhibit the typical image one conjures up when they think of a Black Widow). Males are harmless, they have a much shorter life span, are a fraction of the female's size and their sole purpose is to mate (they don't really eat at all after maturation). Here is a picture of a male (Latrodectus mactans).
R

[SerpentLust]

That was the best video and the music was awesome! lol It went quite well with the video if you ask me! lmao

[TheRedDragon]

*LOL* The music was hilarious, seemed like she was boogying to it. *L* That was very fascinating video, how lucky of you to catch her in the act.

[Kyle Barker]

damn man VERY cool. I got vids of mine but i can only do 30 seconds at a time..so they were scraped. Thats pretty damn cool, best vid ive seen of it ever. I cant beleive how fat she stayed too, some seem to be almost flat after laying.

dont suppose there is any way of seeing the 2 hour by any chance? yes my life is that boring....

[manville]

woah that is a really good video

[Dragoon]

Amazing!!

THANKS!

And I don't have sound on my computer, uhhh, I guess I should be happy?
I too, was very surprised to see she didn't lose much mass after constructing such a huge ball! Oh, now I will dream of seeing a spider do this in my care...
Also too, the scenery was terrific, and the twigs arched perfectly for a nice picture.
Do you have a picture of where this spider lives? Do you mind? It looks like a nice setup.
D.