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Published: 2010-08-14 02:16:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1185; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 21
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Here's this lady again. I've been trying to get her to eat this stupid cricket for a week, it kept breaking through her web effortlessly. Then it finally just died, probably of boredom. I turned her tank flipways so the dead cricket would fall into the zigzaggy bit, and she SUPER EXCITEDLY shot web all over it and did a little dance and is now eating it.GOOD JOB MISS LAZY LEGS
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Nobody sells orbweavers online, It would be awesome to have a banana spider as a pet.
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LOL silly spider... that little story was cute! 
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It's not very large, 7"x4"x5". It was just supposed to be for capturing her in and I was meaning to get a bigger one but she seems to be doing pretty well in it anyway?
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Oh yeah that's cool... I was just curious because I didn't know how much space a spider of her size (which usually build such large webs) needed to do well. But I suppose as long as she gets fed, she probably doesn't care huh?
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It actually gives about as much space to make a web as the setup she had in the spiderworts so I suppose she's not too fussed by it XP She still eats the web most nights and I can catch her remaking it in the mornings sometimes.
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How cool is that! 
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The thing that amazed me the most was watching her wrap up the cricket, I didn't know they literally sprayed web at stuff. It took her 1-2 seconds to completely cover the thing, ridiculous. Whenever I've watched tarantulas web stuff up, they're very slow and methodical about it, they just put the food on the ground and do a little dance around it for a few minutes.
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A little dance, LOL! 
And wow, I didn't know they sprayed web either, that's crazy! Spiderman status, for sure. I guess it's like how a lot of baby spiders spray little web-balloons, or something?
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I tried getting video of it a while back, it's not the best quality but Nicky starts his buttdance at about 1:40 [link]
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Oh my gosh, LOL that's too funny! XD Why the heck do they do that anyway; do you have any idea what purpose the behavior serves or is it just for the pure happiness of the occasion?
Nicky's a very handsome tarantula btw, I'm jealous!
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They lay down little sheets of silk while they're doing it (you can kinda see his spinnerets wiggling) I believe it's to bundle up whatever they're eating so it won't fall apart before they're done.
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Ahh I see, well that explains a lot as I did notice the spinnerets moving around in your video. Thanks for the info! I know you're always the person to go to when I have spidey queries, heheh.
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Ugh D: LOL nice markings though. Can I ask, how do you know it's female? I know female spiders tend to be bigger than males. And black widow females are easy to identify. But if you don't have the other gender to compare it to, how can you determine the sex of a spider?
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It depends on the species, but Argiopes have a pretty noticeable size difference. Here's a couple of pictures I took a few years ago with a female and male sitting on opposite sides of the same web [link] [link]
With a lot of tarantula species, mature males will have a little hook on each of their front pair of legs. Some other examples of dimorphism in various spider species includes color differences, presence of "eyebrow" hairs, pedipalp size, etc
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Oh cute! 'cause you know, with mammals you just have to look between the legs XD So I was wondering how to tell with spiders.
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Well, you can do it that way but it takes a microscope most of the time XP They've got sort of a pocket on the underside of their abdomen, you can identify sex from a molt if you know what to look for... presence of a flappy bit I think, I forget lol
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ah okay. That makes sense 
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My mom would 'love' this 
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