Question for the spider people...
I have (at least) two largish weaver spiders living in our shrubbery, that I wish to encourage to stay.
When I've kept carnivorous critters in the past, I had to feed them with live foods. Crickets, mealworms, feeder fish, etm.
Can I toss crickets, and/or mealworms, into a feral weaver spider's web, or would that be counterproductive?
Keep in mind both #Maleficent and #Aranea are roughly the size of my pinky finger tip.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug I've tossed stuff into the webs for our porch spiders, I would also relocate them so they were near the light by the front door to lure bugs into the web
If it comes up: get a large rake and gently try to set it behind the web and try to scoop it up with tension and smoothly lower it to the ground hopefully before they bungee off the web.
Let them climb you or into a box or something and smoothly position them in a better spot.
@maxthyme
Thank you!
I gather, then, that a juicy, untreated cricket tossed in the web every 5 to 10 days would be a welcome treat for my new arachnid girlfriends. (I'm assuming they're lady spiders)
The webs are strung in areas we don't/can't walk through, are pretty to look at, and I see no need to disturb them.
As far as lights go, there are LED lanterns on either side of the bench. Check #ScamnumArdenti for pics.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug boys will be really tiny little dudes creeping around the edges trying to work up their nerve to approach those big sexy ladies.
Try to scale snacks by the size of the spiders, might wanna chill the crickets a little so they aren't bitey and generally the girls treat their webs like a memory storage device so something large hitting it and bouncing will usually trigger the wrap instinct.
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