Here’s another video of Argiope making an egg sac. The difference is that this is a time-lapse, so you can see the whole process in 10 minutes rather than 10 hours.
I particularly like how she squeezes out a big ball of eggs, looking like a mass of tapioca.
Add salt and call it caviar.
Beautiful. Not as cute as a pinktoe tarantula. Daaaw, look at the little pink toes, you just want to grab em.
That looks extremely uncomfortable for her, pushing out a mass of eggs that’s bigger than she is.
No wonder Charlotte was tired.
It always blows my mind that something with such a small brain can have such complex behavior and planning. Seems like they have a more smarts per neuron.
Is it just the light being used, or are those spider eggs actually fluorescing?