Mum to Be...

[Paul]

Spider alert.

Don't look ladies (or gents) if you have arachnophobia...

 

This mummy spider is still looking after her future offspring - on the garden fence here. I wonder how tired they get from carrying all that lot around!

 

 

 

 

Paul.

[Martyn]

How long do they have to walk round like that Paul? My spiders still look like this two weeks after I first spotted the cocoons, I keep expecting to see adults carrying babies on their backs.

[Paul]

How long do they have to walk round like that Paul? My spiders still look like this two weeks after I first spotted the cocoons, I keep expecting to see adults carrying babies on their backs.

 

I think they are carried for about 20 days. Once they hatch though, the babies ride the mothers back for up to two weeks!

 

 

Paul.