Some New Babies!

Hey Everybody! :)
Well, as you guys probably know, I've been slacking a bit lately with my blog and haven't been posting many updates on my insects. One of the biggest updates I haven't shared yet is on my Eurycotis decipiens......one of the oothecae hatched!!! It took about two months to hatch and produced about 13 very small, black nymphs.
Here are some pics!

E.decipiens hatchling

It was really funny when they hatched, all I saw was little antennae sticking out from the crevices in the cork bark.One of these guys sadly died in a water droplet that was on the container wall after I misted them, but all the others seem to be alive and well. Still have 6 or 7 oothecae that I'm waiting on to hatch, so I'll definitely make some more posts when they hatch!

I also had two of my Scytodes thoracica egg cases hatch. If the adults aren't already small enough(about 6mm), the babies are absolutely MINESCULE(less then 1mm!) I saw about 10 slings from the first hatch(it looked like they had hatched a couple days before I noticed them though and there likely was some cannibalism) and about 25 from the second hatch( these guys looked like they had hatched very shortly before I noticed them.)
Here's a couple photos of them!

S.thoracica slings from hatch #1

S.thoracica slings from hatch #2

Hope you guys cold see them pretty well. I ended up letting them go in the place where I found my first adult because I already have a good number of inverts to care for and honestly didn't want to deal with caring for almost forty baby spiders that I can barely even see.LOL I guess the third females egg case was infertile because it was small and never ended up hatching. I also lost that female on accident a couple days ago, but luckily a couple of them were actually found in my house so looks like they do just fine in the conditions inside my house.

Hope you guys enjoyed reading my new post, and until next time, goodbye!

Eggcases: Some Have Been Made and One Has Hatched!

Hello Once Again Everybody! :)
Well I've got some great updates on a couple of my spiders!
I'll start off with the most important news, which would be the hatching of my Tigrosa helluo's egg case!!! There are about 60 hatchlings, and all of them seem to be healthy and in perfect condition! The vast majority of them are still laying on the female's back, but 9 of them apparently were ready to venture off of their mother's back, so I took them and put them in their own, individual deli cups. They are very cute, and look basically like mini adults only with different colors, although they should look more normal after their next molt.
Here's the pictures!

Female with hatchlings on back

T.helluo hatchling

T.helluo hatchling compared to penny

9 T.helluo hatchlings in deli cups

I also have some other good, egg case related news! I recently caught 2 more Scytodes thoracica( which I have not yet made a post about, but will shortly) and one ended up being a pregnant adult female, and it created an egg case yesterday! I'm very excited about the new little guys that should be hatching in a month or two!
Here's a photo!

Adult female S.thoracica with egg case

The last good news I have today is that my Eurycotis decipiens have laid 2 more oothecae for me, which gives me a total of 3! The oldest ooth should be hatching any day now! I will either put in into a small sealed container, or try to hot glue some mesh in the inside of the container, to make the container extra secure.
That's all the updates that I'll share right now, but more will be on the way, so keep checking my blog! Until next time, goodbye!

T. helluo Egg Case, Another Un-I.Ded Larva, and More

Hello Again Everyone!
Well, I looked in my adult female Tigrosa helluo's  container earlier today and you already know from the title what I found..... an egg case!!! I'm really excited to see if anything hatches from it, being that I found it in the wild, I'm thinking there's a good chance that it might be fertile! Here's some pictures of it!

Adult Female T.helluo Carrying Egg Case

I also found another unidentified larva in my yard that I would like an I.D for.

larva

The last couple things I wanted to share were my Scytodes thoracica's enclosure, my Platydracus praetermissus's enclosure and the little tunnels my S.vicinus have made!

S. thoracica enclosure

P.praetermissus enclosure

Tunnels in S.vicinus enclosure

My Scytodes thoracica's enclosure is a small, plastic container with ventilation holes in the lid. I'm using coconut fiber as the substrate and have some bent pieces of egg crate in there for it to make its webs on. My Platydracus praetermissus's enclosure is also a small, plastic container, but without ventilation holes in the lid, although I will likely add some, but it's not as important in this container because the lid doesn't seal as tight as the other one. I'm also using coconut fiber as the substrate, and have a couple pieces of egg crate for it to hide under.
Also, I added some more sand to the substrate in my Scarites vicinus enclosure like SalmonSaladSandwitch recommended me to if I wanted to see tunnels and they made some pretty cool little excavations under the substrate!
Hope you guys enjoyed as I also do, and until next time, goodbye!

Spitting Spider(Scytodes thoracica)

Hey Everyone! :)
Haven't made a post in a week or so ,quite frankly, I haven't had anything to post about! But that has changed! While looking with my little brother in a place that leads under our cottage( I've never looked under there before), he found something very cool and that I've wanted to have for a while....... a spitting spider!!! To be specific it is a Scytodes thoracica, and although it may be small it is very interesting with it's enlarged head, stripes, and it's very unique ability to spit a mixture of venom and webs, which it uses when hunting it's prey! It's really cool that I recently ordered some little Kenyan roaches, which should arrive tomorrow, because the nymphs should be a perfect size prey item for this small spider. Here's some pictures I got of it!

Scytodes thoracica

I also took a couple egg cases I saw near it, in case they are from the spitting spider, but they are most likely just from the long-legged cellar spiders that also inhabited that space.I'm really looking forward to tomorrow when my feeders come so I can observe it's hunting behavior! Hope you guys enjoyed this post, and until next time, good bye!