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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nunua" data-source="post: 129145" data-attributes="member: 4947">I can't stop admiring the sensitivity of T setae <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />It was a feeding time for my Ts and when I dropped a cricket in my A. geniculata's enclosure, it ran few laps around it ending up on top of Maisa's hide. All that time Maisa was moving in her hide clearly sensing vibrations coming from the running cricket, and when the cricket ran on top of the hide Maisa tried to climb up to catch it.Before Maisa was brisk enough to actually come out from her hide to hunt the cricket jumped in, so unfortunately I didn't see more hunting action <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />But yes, such admirable sensitivity! It's more obvious with the webbing species as you can see the web yourself, but it's amazing with the barely webbing species as well. I can only imagine the amount of more or less invisible strings all over the enclosure. Every time when Maisa has been digging her hide, she has carried the clumps all over the enclosure and made a soft mat out of them by carefully tapping them after putting them down.Photo of Maisa's enclosure<img src="http://puu.sh/zY40N/c28a76d8cb.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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