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I agree! He has helped and taught me a lot.-
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- Thread starter Martin Oosthuysen
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I agree! He has helped and taught me a lot.
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Hello,the following in my experience is not heard of. My Avic Versi Color is hanging her eaten victims heads on strands of web,I've never seen this. Its like she's a serial killer displaying her trophies haha. Wow,what an exiting first ever for me.
I'm asking a few people about this, could be a first documented case of what just happened. Even if it isn't,it must be damn rare.
I'm asking a few people about this, could be a first documented case of what just happened. Even if it isn't,it must be damn rare.
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LOL she is warding off intruders... Beautiful webbing!!
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Haha,its a first for me ever.
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I have also never seen or heard of this before. Strange. But hey if she is happy all is well.
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I think this could be a new behavior,worth asking about. Always time for a first,busy asking around between everyone as we speak.
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Awesome let me know if you stumble upon something please. should be very interesting.
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So far not seen before,so I'm crossing my fingers for a first.
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I've also never heard of a T doing this. Perhaps you should start a new thread for this. Then it's on top of the stack for everyone to see and comment.
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I have asked few people that have been in the hobby years,so hopefully I should get an answer.
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I think its a bit of lazy work from the versi in my opinion.
You will probably find that as the spider was wrapping the prey items while turning in circles (When they do their feeding "dance") and the web has formed an artificial, accidental bungee cord. When the spider went to throw the prey item out of the hide, it has gotten stuck and been left hanging there. Instinctively they would not leave prey remains lying around as this would attract ants.
You will probably find that as the spider was wrapping the prey items while turning in circles (When they do their feeding "dance") and the web has formed an artificial, accidental bungee cord. When the spider went to throw the prey item out of the hide, it has gotten stuck and been left hanging there. Instinctively they would not leave prey remains lying around as this would attract ants.
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Well that's the first opinion,we will hopefully see what else comes up. Looking at the actual cage,not from a photo, you would see its been stuck from the outside of her hide she made. Where I feed her inside the hide/tunnel,will have to see where this goes. Thanks for the first reply.
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I had a similar problem with one of my pokies after dropping a sac. She had also left a piece of webbing that was attached to the sac, preventing her from rotating it properly.
Had to eventually cut it off of the inside of her cork tube.
Had to eventually cut it off of the inside of her cork tube.
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I have seen strands before,but this is in no way the same. If you were in front of that cage,you would have wondered about this. That's why I hate photos,they don't fully carry over the exact image. Both are stuck on the underside of the tubed webbing,not just out of the entrance or from the tunnel where she eats. I know this might sound unbelievable,the heads are attached to those strands.
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See what others say, but there should be no reason for the spider to want to attract scavengers to its hide.
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I can't explain it either way, it's something I haven't seen at all. For her to do it once okay,but twice ? Also I knew it would be unbelievable that's why I took photos of it, I really hope even though how weird it sounds I get some kind of point to work to on an answer. So thanks for the first possibility,hope to get see more.
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That is interesting!
Is it the bolus?
Where does the spider normally dump/drop the bolus after she as eaten?
Is it the bolus?
Where does the spider normally dump/drop the bolus after she as eaten?
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I'm going to keep my eye on this as it develops. It is very interesting indeed.
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Hello
She usually dumps it on the opposite corner of that tube nest,she has two entrances/exits she uses. These are attached to the bottom of the nest,which I can't explain in any way shape or form. They are the heads,also a tiny part if the crickets body. I want to see more,but then I will have to disturb her or destroy the nest.
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So cut the remains off and see what the remains are exactly.
If I remember correctly from my days of feeding crickets ( which has been about 2 years) to my spiders, they remains consist of the wings, the legs and heads and the bolus is not put together as well as what a roaches bolus would look like
Also the crickets bolus seems to be more lose and chunky than normal.
Some of my P. Cambridgei hang the remains inside the middle of the webbing or in the one corner rapped in webbing, I will try get some pictures the next time I do cage maintenance.
Then this happened a while ago, I had an Avicularia versicolor die will hanging from a bolus, it was a 2.5cm sling,
I was not sure what happened. But it had gone into a death curl and in the process it fell off from its perch still hanging from the strand of webbing.
Just something I was thinking about.
If you have to think about this in a logical way and what a spider would do after it has caught it's prey, is secure its prey item from falling or dropping it.
Talking about Arboreal species that is, and surely they have this built in, just thinking about it they would not want to lose the hard earned meal they caught!
So maybe your spider had secured it's prey and was not able to break the strand of webbing and just decided to dump them where she was.
If I remember correctly from my days of feeding crickets ( which has been about 2 years) to my spiders, they remains consist of the wings, the legs and heads and the bolus is not put together as well as what a roaches bolus would look like
Also the crickets bolus seems to be more lose and chunky than normal.
Some of my P. Cambridgei hang the remains inside the middle of the webbing or in the one corner rapped in webbing, I will try get some pictures the next time I do cage maintenance.
Then this happened a while ago, I had an Avicularia versicolor die will hanging from a bolus, it was a 2.5cm sling,
I was not sure what happened. But it had gone into a death curl and in the process it fell off from its perch still hanging from the strand of webbing.
Just something I was thinking about.
If you have to think about this in a logical way and what a spider would do after it has caught it's prey, is secure its prey item from falling or dropping it.
Talking about Arboreal species that is, and surely they have this built in, just thinking about it they would not want to lose the hard earned meal they caught!
So maybe your spider had secured it's prey and was not able to break the strand of webbing and just decided to dump them where she was.
