A private moment in the life of a Garden Spider

摘要

We see spider activity around us daily, spiders hunting, spider courtship and the numerous egg sacs but what we don't see is that moment the female spider releases her eggs before encasing them in silk. Back in July 2016 I managed to photographicallydocument the tiny pirate spider Ero furcata producing eggs and the photos were featured in the Autumn edition of the British Arachnological Society's Newsletter. I was over the moon to observe this spider behaviour and never in my wildest dreams believed I would capture it again. How wrong was I! So it was, on the 20th November 2016 I had the privileged to view and record this special and quite unseen moment in a spider's life.... AGAIN!