My spiders at day 5 don’t look that much different than they did at day 4 — it’s all incremental growth at this point — but one very noticeable feature is the way they’ve built a dense mat of cobwebs throughout their petri dish. They’ve put a lot of energy in constructing their niche.
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Have you been able to get any video of them eating the flies? That would be neat to see.
Good time to read or reread Fabre on spiders.
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