Strange behavior, please explain.

[Mr. P]

I have a female B. smithi, 4.5 inches and when I feed her two red runners she will hunt them both down. She will then drop them in a pile, turn around and rub her spinneretes back and forth on them for around five minutes, no webbing. She then picks them back up and continues to feed.

Any meaning behind this ritual?

 

[Enn49]

Who knows why Ts do some of the things they do. Maybe she just likes to play with her food but at least she is eating.

 

[KezyGLA]

She is rolling them up in silk to hold together while she eats them.

 

[MassExodus]

She is rolling them up in silk to hold together while she eats them.

This. Nice to see someone carefully observing behavior, Mr P, Very refreshing!

 

[Whitelightning777]

As long as she's eating them, it's all good.

 

[Mr. P]

As long as she's eating them, it's all good.

Oh she is eating them alright. I just think it's funny because I can drop two or three red runners in there and she will chase them all down. Once she has them she will put them all in a pile and turn around and rub her backside on them for a bit. Then she will pick them up and eat, after about 20 minutes she does it again. She will do this three or four times before she finishes them, it's amusing.

 

[Solsurfer]

Some kind of unknown abdominal flavoring adaptation. Never seen that before not without webbing