Definitely 🥰 any mother can look at that face and know what she is feeling 😂 these spiders aren’t aggressive, they are actually quite smart, and while large and fast, are just trying their best to keep the bugs from overrunning your home. They are friends. #DontSquishMePlease
Definitely 🥰 any mother can look at that face and know what she is feeling 😂 these spiders aren’t aggressive, they are actually quite smart, and while large and fast, are just trying their best to keep the bugs from overrunning your home. They are friends. #DontSquishMePlease
@Opiumbrella Yes. They are helpful and quite beautiful creatures. But still...
Here's one of mine 💁♂️ Poecilotheria ornata lives in symbiosis with small tree frogs (usually 1 or 2 frogs live inside the spider's burrow) that keep a female's cocoon and the female herself safe from ants and other tiny predators the spider can't defend itself against. In turn, the frogs have food all the time and the spider protects them against birds, lizards and various shrews and other small carnivores. Mothers are ferocious and carry their cocoon with them wherever they go. The mother will create an insulated environment with just the right humidity and temperature once the spiderlings start hatching and to prevent any of the young from being crushed or suffocated, she periodically rolls the cocoon around. She doesn't eat and she doesn't hunt for months, she rarely ever drinks. Eventually, she will tear open her cocoon to let the tiny ones out and stays with them for a period of time, protecting the nest more actively, hunting around her burrow and bringing in small pre-killed food items for the young ones to eat.
@Opiumbrella I know that look. “Take the goddamn kids whilst I lock myself in the pantry with a bottle of gin.”
@Opiumbrella She's cute, but I wish the babies were less translucent. It's not their fault, though, and they will grow out of it.