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Araneus diadematus, 8 december, sub adult. Building its web right about where some European paper wasps (Polistes dominula) have their nests. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer...

Eratigena atrica(atrica), 03 december, feeding time. Male still very much alive. He's lucky her partner is so kind as to not eat him, or is it simply his leg span? Size matters sometimes... Also my phone fell in 😱

Eratigena atrica, 23 november, again feeding only the male. Kept the original sound on this one and tried cutting out boring parts and camera shaking. Notice their signalling movements to let the other know who is there. These spiders, like most other spiders, are solitary hunters and usually kill anything that moves in their webs. With many species of spiders the males are often killed and eat...

Eratigena atrica(atrica), 14 November. Male is still alive, looking hungry again. I decided to feed only him because the female looks already pregnant. So I'm cutting her off.😁 (I'm not sure if the male absorbs all the food.)

Eratigena atrica (atrica), 12 November. Still chilling together, after almost 2,5 months being paired. The first part of this video was recorded last week, when I gave them both another maggot. Music: Order Musician: ComaStudio URL: pixabay.com/music/-order-99518/

Eratigena atrica mating again, after being two days together now.

Eratigena atrica(atrica), late oktober, being together about two months. Both having fasted for about a month since the last meal. He grabbed two blowflies while dominating the female to back off. He starts eating the last one, and leaves the first one for the female to find.

Eratigena atrica(atrica), about a month after being together. This video was shot in late September. First time the male eats after mating. He fasted for about a month, and now decides he's actually kinda hungry, so he "confiscates" the first two maggots. So I threw in a third one...

Eratigena atrica(atrica), male and female, both virgins, first time together, late August 2024. Paired successfully. They will stay together until the male dies, after which the female usually eats him. The male turned adult late spring this year, 2024, while the female was still one molting away from adulthood. At the moment of uploading this, 27 oktober, they're still together, mating occasio...

Anyone can make this if you have plain yogurt, a fine cloth and some sugar for the whey honey. If you like real Greek yogurt this is for you, and you don't need to strain it as long. Most whey will be gathered the first few hours. But the great thing about straining yogurt is, you can stop anytime you want. Every drop of whey lost will make it thicker. This one strained for about an afternoon, ...

The ice creams I make for you are freezable without using an ice cream machine, and I always try to keep the recipe simple, and easy to remember. If you know what you're doing, or simply like experimenting, adapt it to your liking. Use heavy whipping cream and any (full fat) coconut milk, but higher quality is better. Both should be cold. If the ice cream still turns out a little hard, just lea...

In this video: Cornu aspersum (h.aspersa), garden snail. Arion rufus, red slug. They'll eat your crops and plants, so let's turn the table. You can eat al known terrestrial snails and slugs after thoroughly cooking. But, some of them are not so damaging and mostly eat dead material, like banded snails and leopard slugs. In addition the leopard slug will also hunt other slugs! Snail and slug egg...

Here I'm making a variant of a classic dish from the Netherlands and surrounding nations. I used more meat and less potatoes while extracting most of the starch. Possible keto friendly.

All known land snails and slugs are edible after being cooked thoroughly, but do your own research first, and look for reliable sources. This typical garden snail, cornu aspersum, is actually highly priced in restaurants, but you can get them for free in your own backyard (Gordon Ramsay). Free-range snails also taste better, experts say. Music: Sunny Musician: LiQWYD URL: www.soundcloud.com/liqwyd

Cooked banded snails from my garden

Microwave citrus curd

Rich frozen custard/vanilla ice cream

Microwave pastry cream

Fresh tomato jam

False black widow (steatoda grossa) male

Eratigena atrica(group), finishing up egg sac.

Dutch donuts (Oliebollen)

Male garden cross spider before mating

Stray cat (partial feral) & Leopard slug

Feeding time Giant house spider (Eratigena atrica)

Homemade Clarified Butter Ghee

Candy striped spider vs fungus gnat

Dry rendered lard ragout/gravy

Black garden ants vs maggot