I know you’re going to miss them. Today is the start of our August spider survey, so shortly my students and I are going to start rummaging around in grungey garages and sheds, counting spiders, and we have to push hard because it’s a short week, since I’m flitting off to Missouri on Thursday. That means a long day and getting home all dirty and sweaty and bleary-eyed.
Maybe if I see some weird and exotic specimen, I might shoot a photo, but mainly we expect hordes of our familiar theridiidae and pholcidae, and I’ll just be ticking off tallies. It’s data, though!
This is, technically, a spider post…
I’m curious where all this spidering is headed. I can understand taking pictures of as many varieties you can find in nature, but breeding them seems a little odd. Any plan or just a hobby?
You have to breed them to get multitudes of embryos to experiment on.
Thanks.