• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    Had a window spider in my bathroom that I fed regularly. It molted one day and was huge - went from skittle size to dime size (including legs).

    It died a few weeks later. Not sure why.

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      11 days ago

      It’s quite common in some spiders to have a “maturity moult” after which the spider will change their behaviour to focus on reproduction. They will often stop eating and males will go wandering around looking for females, while the females will build and guard an egg sac.

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          10 days ago

          Haha, maybe. It was just some general info. “Window spider” is not a colloquial name for any specfic group of spiders as far as I am aware, so I have no idea what kind of spider you actually had there.