Fel (T. Georgicola) Was Very Excited About Mealtime And Literally Leapt And Tore The Mealworm Out Of

Fel (T. georgicola) was very excited about mealtime and literally leapt and tore the mealworm out of the tongs before I could place the worm in the enclosure

My new velvet ant. This is a smaller species, so not the big, furry ones that people are more aware of.

She has a more sandy substrate to mimic the area she was collected in and because most people keep them in more desert conditions.

Very cool little guy, she does not have a name yet:)

Something happened to poor Zorua and she lost 3 and a half legs. My only theory is that maybe a mealworm bit her? She I'd still getting around fine luckily and I redid her enclosure.

Only thing I can really do now is monitor her closely and feed her mealworms from tweezers instead of just dropping them in there

Officially introducing

Doris the black widow!!

Black widows are wonderful little animals and I have been looking for one for a long time so I'm glad I finally have one, I've had her for a month or so now

Aspera, the first of all the babies to make a burrow

Bug tour part 1: Starting with spiders!

This is going to be a series of posts to show my current invertebrates

I will start with my 3 baby T. georgicola. These are the offspring of my late wolf spider, Zorua. They were all born 7/1/23

The first baby is Aspera.

She is a very confident spider with very pretty coloration. She is the largest of my spiders, which is odd because I feed them all at the same time.

The second baby spider is Fel.

I originally picked them out because they looked the most like their mother. She was the first to take down live food instead of the pre-killed mealworm I was offering when they were tiny. She loves food and has even attacked the tweezers when I dropped food in because she mistook it for food.

The last of my 3 baby T. georgicola is Leto.

She looks very similar to Aspera and while I originally selected the babies I'm keeping in hopes of having them all look different I really like this coloration. I am not sure if they will keep this coloration as they age or not. She is also very food motivated and is a bit more shy than the other two.

I do have a fourth baby wolf spider but they are not one of Zoruas babies. I think they are a Hogna species. I have not named this one yet.

This baby burrows a lot more than my other wolf spiders. I have them in a smaller display enclosure and I like being able to look over and see them.

My next spider is an old black widow named Doris

She is the first widow that I ever caught and I am very fond of her since black widows are some of my favorite inverts. She did not used to have any white on her but as she's aged and laid eggsacks, she's gotten more white. She also had 24 babies hatch today.

The next spiders I will show are Doris' babies.

There are 24 total. I originally crushed a lot of the eggsack in hope only like 5 or 10 would hatch out because I cannot care for a hundred baby widows at the moment. 24 is better than 100 though. I will probably leave them together for a bit and they might cannibalize each other but once I notice them cannibalizing I will separate them.

My last spider is a baby fishing spider named Pebble.

Pebble is a bit of a challenging spider. I have her set up with a little water container and some fake leaves to chill on and she will be upgraded as she grows. I can only ever get her to eat moths and not mealworms or darkling beetles and I've never caught her eating, I've just seen her prey dead.

That wraps up the first part of my bug tour, my pet spiders. I am going to start writing the next part now.