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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jake (Cascade)" data-source="post: 24284" data-attributes="member: 2407">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 likeAlso 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.</blockquote>