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02-25-04, 12:00 AM
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Guess how many eggs! *PIC*
Well, looks can certainly be deceiving, I had no idea there were this many eggs in a Black Widow egg sac. This is a picture of my most recent dissection and egg count of a Latrodectus hesperus egg sac:
I was estimating a couple hundred eggs were in her egg sacs until I decided to put the picture in an editing program. I placed a black dot over each egg as I inputted it into a counter, grand total = 500 eggs! Yikes! Hard to believe so many eggs can be crammed into such a tiny sac (approx. 1 cubic centimeter).
Anyway, the egg sac that I am currently hatching out appears to be moving (after 28 days) so I can only assume that the eggs are hatching. I have read that only 1-12 spiderlings emerge from the egg sac due to cannibalism, I am hoping this is the case (I would rather deal with a dozen or so little spiders than 500 barely macroscopic spiderlings).
Cheers,
Ryan
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02-25-04, 12:06 AM
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That sounds really awesome! I sure wouldn't want 500 little widows running around :medopen: *L* Where's the pic? 
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02-25-04, 12:09 AM
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Ha ha, sorry Erin, I was hoping no one would look at the post in the 10 seconds I needed to rectify the HTML code, LOL, you must be omnipresent!
Ryan
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02-25-04, 12:15 AM
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02-25-04, 12:17 AM
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Do you want to send me some? :P
Aidan
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02-29-04, 08:52 PM
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Oooh! I'll take one off your hands for ya when they hatch!!
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02-29-04, 09:04 PM
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what do the babies eat? How will you know if there even alive and havnt escaped...the cage would have to be like airtight? there gonna be TINY!
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02-29-04, 09:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Bartman
what do the babies eat? How will you know if there even alive and havnt escaped...the cage would have to be like airtight? there gonna be TINY!
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If you have been reading all of my other posts pertaining to this subject you will know that all of the variables have been accounted for. The spiderlings are well contained.
R
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02-29-04, 10:23 PM
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If I remember correctly, he puts a cricket in the freezer for a bit to slow it down.. then he sticks it in the web of the widow.
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03-01-04, 04:16 PM
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cool!
I was looking over some older posts you made, couldnt find it though..dunno why
goodluck with babies!
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03-04-04, 05:28 PM
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send me some slings wen they hatch 
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