
Nursery Web Spider #1

by Paul Whitten
Title
Nursery Web Spider #1
Artist
Paul Whitten
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Female Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira). After laying her eggs, the Nursery Web Spider will wrap them into a silk egg sac. She will then carry the egg sac in her chelicerae until hatching time. When hatching time arrives, the female will build a "nursery" in which the eggs can hatch. The nursery consists of a few leaves woven together with silk. which forms a protective pocket into which the egg sac is placed.
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August 29th, 2018
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