New Grower Hugo's Backyard!

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aBB#2 and Mohan Ram just got upgraded with a Spider! :)

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Red and Black Spider
Ambicodamus crinitus
Family: Nicodamidae


This tiny Red and Black spider only grows to about 12mm and is quite common in the garden. Due to its colouring, it is often confused with the Red-back spider. It is not dangerous and its bite will only cause a small amount of local swelling.

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Habitat and Biology
In summer, males leave their web, during daylight hours, and wander in search of females. This wandering habit often brings them indoors. Due to the red and black colour, the spider is often confused with the red-back spider and, as red is a common warning colour, the spider is sometimes thought to be highly venomous. The egg case has a woolly appearance and is suspended in the web.

Colour
Male: Similar to female.
Female: Body and legs commonly bright red, abdomen black, but varying orange to dark red, sometimes with a bluish tinge.

Form
Typically a small spider with slender legs, most easily recognised by colour pattern as described above.

Body Length
Male: 10mm
Female: 12mm

Web type
A few irregular strands built under bark, stones or logs.

Bite
Despite the red colour of this spider its venom is not dangerous. At most, it may cause a local reaction around the bite site. Normal precautions, as outlined in the introduction, should be observed.
 
Ahahah! Negative sir, it's cheaper than neem :)

BTW my resinous aBB #1 is catching a few bugs that get glued to her and die. Is it normal o_0 ?
 
Haha Hugo that spider is awesome bro! :smokebuds:
 
Hugo. Symbiotic--a new resident spider to ward off the leaf eaters. He is classy with a bold paint job.
 
Damn, after seeing the size of your LST I decided to wrap my purple kush a bit as its getting quite tall and it will break through my cover :) Unfortunately its a bit late for doing the circular shape as she is about two months old now, but since I wrapped her she is getting a lot more branches up towards the sun.
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Any advise would be appreciated :)
 
Symbiotic indeed! This morning I found a ladybug in the NL5H but she flew away before I had the time to take a picture. And then this afternoon after lunch I found another spider again in NL5H.

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Uloborus plumipes is an Old World cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae.
Common names are Feather-legged lace weaver and Garden center spider, due to its frequent occurrence in garden centers around the world.
Females grow up to 6mm. A stabilimentum is sometimes present. Pattern and coloration is quite variable. In contrast to U. walckenaerius, it has distinct tufts of hairs on the front legs. They hang upside down in their horizontal webs. Young spiders look like dead insects and are thus hard to find in a web.
The empty egg sac can often be seen attached to house plants. It is flattish, papery and brown and about 0.5 cm long, with the shape of a dried holly leaf.

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Feeding day for NL5H (98 days) and aBB#1 (90 days).

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NL5H

She's still recuperating from over feeding, but it's on the right track again. This is her second flush now. I'll try to anticipate next flushing time before the soil reaches critical point again: probably in a month from now.


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aBB#1

All well with this old lady. She only showed her sex at 42 days old so I'm judging she'll need 2 or 3 more weeks. This week I'll do some smoke test :) ! Started to show yellowing of oldest leafs, so she's definitely getting to that sweet spot.

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