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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 237129" data-attributes="member: 49228">Put the eggs in the sack, please. Just how do tarantulas make their eggsacs? I was lucky enough to catch this Honduran Curly Hair in the act. When a tarantula is ready to lay her eggs, she first lays down a silken mat, many layers thick. She then mixes the male’s genetic material (stored in the spermatheca) with her eggs as she expels them from her abdomen, onto the center of the silken mat. She then draws the edges together, like a hobo’s knapsack. This forms into a rough ball shape. The female tarantula will carry her eggsac around with her and turn it, periodically, to keep the eggs on the bottom from having too much pressure on them. The more she turns her eggsac, the more perfectly spherical it will become. Thirty to sixty days later, her babies will emerge, ready to fend for themselves. Very shortly after that, her babies will scatter to the four winds. She abandons all maternal responsibilities and, for the most part, never sees them again.[ATTACH=full]75590[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]75591[/ATTACH]</blockquote>