I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THIS SPIDER!
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Nephila fenestrata
I love watching orb weavers make their webs! Those strands in front of and behind her spiral web are guard strands that seem to be unique to Nephila! She'll add prey carcasses and other random bits to those strands, which are thought to help protect her and her main web from birds, other predators, and maybe windblown leaves and stuff. I'm super excited to see how this enclosure develops, especially with all the wild spiders in there, too!!
I have about 14 of these female Nephila in my back garden ^^ (Im from South Africa btw) and I have watched the generations of them grow for about 5 years now ^^ the males tend to hang around in the females web until she is ready to breed. Then they all try their luck until they get eaten one by one XD poor little buggers. She then lays one or two beautiful golden egg sacks and so it goes on. The great circle of life
"Why are the spiders always hiding in the darkness!?" ponders the owner of The DARK Den.
Lol
ha ha, indeed xD
Nephila after eating her roach, "Mmm, good dinner, but I wish there was a little bit more." Spots the leg from the other roach, "Oooh, drumstick!"
just the casually petko:
"It looks like a black widow" ... *poke * *poke *
So fascinating how she clears out the web from the former argiope spider to make her own
The wife and I miss one of your sayings. You used to say "What are you doing? What is your plan?". We love that!
Time lapse sequence ‘3D printing of web haha’… so funny petko that is what it’s called from now on. Can’t wait to see that new slow motion camera 👊🏻
I love that enclosure. An absolute insect paradise.
POV The roach: Hey guys whats that big thing picking me up! Ahhhh! Not the spider please! Nnnnnnooooo!
POV The Spider: Yes food is raining from the sky!
yayyy congrats on finally winning the long journey of getting a true nephila for that beautiful inclosure Petko :P
So, so interesting, seeing her working on her web, eating, love that! Andthe resolution of your videos is crystal clear!
Thanks so much! High point of Mondays is getting this notification!
So, from my own experience, orb weavers do the unregular webs when there is not enough place or - and I am not sure - when they are expecting to make an egg sack.
Other than that, rest of the spiders are: Tegenaria silvestris - funnel like web, two unknown Theridiidae.
I was thinking it was 'danger detectors'. Basically, to detect an incoming predator to give it a few extra milliseconds to dodge. Since it seems to have worse eyesight than the typical spider.
I just wanted to post this. When I started watching you I was absolutely scared to death but after some time I got over it and bought my first tarantula Cindy. A time later I bought my second one shorty. Almost 2 months ago he closed himself off completely and he had his molt.. but unfortunately i found out today that he didn't make it. I've had him for 4 months now and I am very upset and unsure what I did wrong. Shorty was a champ, he ate amazing and always was very active. He was a young male. I thank you for taking me into this beautiful world of tarantulas ♥️
I used to think isopods were filthy little things now I see they are actually earths little clean up crew.
It's so cool seeing someone so hyped about a spider that I get to see everywhere all the time and it's awesome cousins the golden orb.
When you were zoomed in on her, I noticed that on her back legs, the hairs look like feathers. Very nice! Thanks Petko! Hope all is well with you and your family. 💛
"let me do some pokeing around... It might be a black widow"
"continuous to finger enclosure"
Plz never change ♥️♥️
Bro these videos are great the slow mo and the music and the style of the video I haven’t watched your videos in a couple months but it look even better now
So funny she went and scavenge the leg after the main course of roach shake
I actually did a mini experiment in grad school where I removed the "auxiliary webs" from in front of and behind wild Nephila spider webs to see if they do (as has been suggested) protect the web from damage. My data was really limited (we only had a few days in the rainforest and then there were a few other confounding factors.) but preliminarily did support my hypothesis. There were other theories about what the "auxiliary webs" are for, too, that I don't remember off the top of my head. But they totally fascinated me!
That's so cool! What a great opportunity, to be able to go out and do that kind of research in the field!
What a marvelous opportunity for everyone.
Fascinating! Thanks For showing these things in slow motion.
Happy Nephila day for you Petko!
Woooow man!!!
Such a NICE content! That time-lapse of her eating the roach was AMAZING!
Thanks for your work Petko! ^^
I just discovered a big female Nephila senegalensis in my garden here in South Africa. She has a huge web!
I love your videos and how they have given me new perspective and joy from creatures I never could have thought I would enjoy. Thank you for sharing your passion
I have about 14 of these female Nephila in my back garden ^^ (Im from South Africa btw) and I have watched the generations of them grow for about 5 years now ^^ the males tend to hang around in the females web until she is ready to breed. Then they all try their luck until they get eaten one by one XD poor little buggers. She then lays one or two beautiful golden egg sacks and so it goes on. The great circle of life
They absolutely love bees btw. when they are fully grown obviously
Omg i love nephilias! This is the spider that stopped me from fearing them. When i was a kid i was invited to enter inside a giant terrarium to see it upclose, it was gorgeous to look at! Of course the step was a difficult leap of faith to do, but i never feared spiders ever since. It's a really great memory to me ^^
Cool photobomb at 16:41 from a cute reptile above you 🦎😁
All these badass killer spiders, then his hamster THEN BACK TO THE KILLERS
Regardless of what you put inside... that enclosure is amazing!
What a smashing spider cant wait for follow ups on her ...
Cool stuff Petko! Nice haircut too!
Ha ha ,she drank up her meal like a capri
Sun drink!!!! Pineapple and roach!!!!
👌👌👌👌
I'm so jealous of all the cool critters you have😭
Argiope species usually feed on wasps and bees, especially Argiope bruennichi (famous wasp spider); that is why they create these unusual patterns on their webs, to confuse them (influence on their vision memory). When you tried to give her a roach, she in some cases actually got scared and responded how she would with predator: excessive webbing and shaking her web. And she dropped it because it is 2 big 4 her, they cant eat that much larger pray in scale as tarantulas can. They usually dont eat roaches, they roam on the ground in most cases, and Argiopes build their webs on higher ground to catch flying insects.
Congrats on Nephilas :)
he should already know that, but again makes mistakes being not informed properly ^^
I thank u for sharing your videos with the world and u also give us knowledge about animals thanks again my friend
How cool she made the meal to go 😁🤘
She ate the roach like tempura.
Lightly battered.
Err, Webbed.
Funny thing is that's how it goes 1, 2 or 3 Out of thousands
Spider experts: what type of spiders do you think inhabited the enclosure?
She’s so beautiful 😍 I’m so happy for you, that you finally got a pair! And the correct ones this time lol 😆 How is the newborn life going? Is she letting you guys get any sleep yet? They grow up so fast! My daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter moved in with me at the beginning of December and I can’t believe how fast my granddaughter has grown, she’s 4.5 months old. I bet your daughter is going to enjoy the Dark Den as much as you do!
I remember you doing the opens on the coffee table. Awe
Very cool. I wonder if some of the babies are just hidden really well or escaped and you will start finding them as they grow bigger. I just hope there's no way for any of those species to hurt or kill any of your beautiful Ts. Great video Petko xx
Regarding the left over roach leg. "Waste not, want not."
Can't wait to see more feeding clips from that spider!
Love the bermudia Bloom right there
Watching this video after work. Hello from Australia. Love your videos Petko
haha you look so happy on the thumbnail
Beautiful inclosures
The spider with carpet like web could possibly be some Tegenaria species, given the patterned legs. Definitely member of Agelenidae family. The other spider you said is completely black may be Steatoda species.
maybe you dont have enough small flies in your enclosement ... those tiny cups need to have a constant supplie of food ... doing that again you should start a fruit fly swarm inside. Its also easy to sustain like coakroaches
Just wanted to say that this is an ex Nephila species. Majority of the genus got moved to Trichonephila few years back.
So this is Trichonephila fenestrata.
the web the roach was walking on was not sticky. those kind of webs are made like velcro and only catch hairy insects.
Some absolutely awesome clips here! Thank you!
Thank you.
Love the thumbnail by the way, great pic. Super funny too, your facial expression is hilarious. Totally spot on. Lol
I like that enclosure
U seriously have me hooked on spiders now
Orb weavers are so rad!
Just come Miami or almost any part of FL. You’ll be happy hunting them, they are everywhere
So strange but my fear is so much worse looking at those than on the tarantulas
I spend a ton of time lately watching your videos, I think you are the most entertaining of all the people I have seen. I don't own any of these kinds of animals myself, but I find them extremely interesting and your channel has allowed me to both learn a lot about them, and experience how cool they are. Your accent is actually really cool too by the way. Really enjoy your channel. You are one of the few channels I have subscribed with the full bell notification turned on.
Thank you for this video!
the reason they eat the Web is It helps them too produce more wedding
Your new spider is super cool!!!
Eating the other webs first was so surprising And funny
Should definitely still try n get the lizard u want for this enclosure
Love your content as always
Here we call orb weavers “banana spiders” I’m guessing becuz of their yellow bodies lol
destroy each web write down where each is then check it in 24-48 hours and get a good count. probably alot ore in there than you think. great video!
Wahoo , new dark den . Always a good day when you upload a new vid .
Plot twist: the one baby left in the web at the top ate all its other siblings and is now simply waiting for its next victim to crawl in. If the two new ones mysteriously disappear as well, I know who I'm blaming!
Great video, bravo!
Wonderful content so interesting and nobody else does that!
Thank you for this super interesting video 👌🏻
Nope, it is an Argiope. Where I am, they are also called garden spiders, and they will eat each other. The female will build her web at night, and finish around dawn. She will hang her trophies, and will set web in front and behind to slow down heavier animals like beetles.
The one you have looks like the ones you find in South-east United States, with the hairy legs, the people there call them "banana spiders".
Asian species don't have hairy legs, and their colors can be black and white, black and red, or black and yellow.
As she gets bigger, she will start to spin webs that are gold in color, hence the nickname "golden orb weaver", and they are among the strongest webs, by weight, in the world.
Because of the web strength, and the size (up to a meter in diameter, with 20-meter guide lines) hey have been known to ensnare and eat bats, and small birds.
When it is time to lay eggs, she will go to the round, and find a place under some dead leaves, and make an egg sack, so you might want to make sure the isopods don't get at them.
love it petco!!
The true nephila spider was the friends and family we me made along the way
The long awaited Nephilla
Are there species of orb weavers that grow much larger then that? Cause it looks just like these spiders that would make their webs on traffic signs but they were huge. Like every one was too scared of them to do something about it huge.
Awesome dark den one thing dark den if there is a black widow spider in that enclosure be careful as black widow spiders are deadly
I live in Australia and had a huge Golden Orb-weaver Trichonephila edulis communal web a while ago with one large one and many smaller ones. I wished I could catch, package and send them out to you but we're not allowed to export from Australia to other countries which is such a shame because most people just kill them in their yards. It was very frustrating to see you looking for communal orb weavers and I had multiple communal webs in my yard. I'm so glad you finally found yourself the spider you've been looking for.
that would be an awesome thing to get and observe, yeah!
Such a cool spider, love their colors and webs can't wait to see it web it all up!
Dayumm
Love your videos petko.
wow! that is by far the best time lapse ive seen in a long time and its actually somethinm interesting keep it up!
My bad. striped bark scorpion Southeast Texas style. not as totally toxic as Arizona 🦂
I love this enclosure. I think you should keep adding different insects and create an ecosystem.
When he wrote the title "HE MEANT IT"
Interesting, you have a sheetweb spider in the bottom of that enclosure. They are really interesting spiders and they don't make a sticky web - hence why the roach can just walk over it.
What a beauty, I am so glad for you.
Yes looks closely resembles our banana spiders
love your Videos
HEY , YOU SHOULD DO MORE FEEDING CLIPS OF THE SPIDER WHO DIDNT WANNA EAT YOUR ROACH , I THINK IT IS A SORT HOUSESPIDER AND I LOVE THEM, OR YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENT ENCLOSURE WITH THIS SPIDER!!!!
Is it weird that I'm creeped out by spiders yet I just found this channel and I love it?!?
What is in the enclosure that is small enough for the baby spiders to eat?? Isopods?? I think you mentioned flies but is there enough of them to keep a lot of babies alive?? I obviously do not keep spiders as pets so I’m just curious.
I'm wondering the same.
without feeding them like every breed needs they die, yes
Great video.
My advice for breeding them is to give the female a bit of food to focus on. That always seemed to help with the nephilids I kept. Also, from the nephila I have seen here in Japan, it isn't all the time, but it is also not unusual to see a multi-layered web.
Awesome vid!
I have to say you are robber prove nobody's gonna Rob a Home that has more spiders than the jungel