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Tiny Spider (Part 2)

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Field Notes

Description:

This tiny 2 mm spider lives in the curve of an arch and has been fun to watch. She makes a quite large messy web (as in picture 5) that is not easily visible without lighting. She curls up at the top and waits for prey...as in picture 4). If disturbed, she drops suddenly on a bungy cord and then slowly climbs back up to her original position (picture 3). She has produced several eggs which are not in an egg sac, but are wound up loose in some webbing near her resting spot (pictures 4 and 5).

Habitat:

Garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.

Notes:

This is the same tiny spider that caught a large moth in her web and fed from the abdomen. Gave her the fuel to produce some eggs!
Tiny Spider (Part 1):
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19508118/fullscreen
Tiny Spider (Part 3):
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/20642594/fullscreen

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