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Earlier this year I purchased two adult female jumping spiders from a (unspecified) reptile store in Boston. I named them Rincewind and Twoflower (iykyk). A few months later I noticed Twoflower had laid an eggsack in her enclosure. Hm, cool! Infertile spiders lay infertile eggsacks all time. I'll wait for her to abandon it (and then maybe eat it). But then....but then...

Black dots. With legs. So many. How is this possible? I google. I learn this happens a lot. I sit in horrified silence. I look at my other spider Rincewind who has built her nest in a walnut shell. I cannot see inside. I sit in a second horrified silence.

I buy deli cups and plan for 200 birthdays. I also buy a net to put around the enclosure since they can fit through the air vent holes (can confirm - if they can escape they will escape).

Then they emerge. And I sort of blacked out for a period of time. One of the broods I place a spider in an individual cup and the second brood I raised communaly. i have somewhere around 150 jumping spiders in my care. Not the grandchildren my mother wanted but here we are.

I spent 2 hours every other day feeding my babies fruitflys and misting them. In exchange for my labor, most of them died. Now I am looking to find good homes for the remainder of my children. Interested? Contact me or find me at the Plymouth Reptile Expo on November 16th.