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
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 ♥️
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 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
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. 💛
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 ^^
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!
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!
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
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 :)
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
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hm. This spider looks a lot like the juvenile golden orb weavers we have in Korea aka the East Asian Joro Spider (Trichonephila clavata). It was the red marking on the tip of her abdomen and irregular web that look very similar. Trichonephila clavata also spin these massive irregular orb webs as well; I’ve seen them even intersecting with neighboring spiders, almost making this massive communal web. They call them banana spiders over here for their bright yellow abdomen once they reach adulthood(not to be confused with the wandering spider).
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.
Just be careful if there are any spider species in the latrodectus (widow spider) genus or any closely related as they can catch other insects and spiders many times their size and aren't afraid to tackle large prey.
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 when she finally went to eat that roach, I thought "Oh, time to tap that keg?" I swear I'm not an alcoholic; it's just that little wrapped roach looked kind of like a rootbeer barrel candy, or something.
The babies all died cause there was no flying prey in your enclosure for them to catch. Babies need to be fed regularly to survive, else they will wither away quickly if not in the wild.
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
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 👊🏻
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!"
So fascinating how she clears out the web from the former argiope spider to make her own
just the casually petko:
"It looks like a black widow" ... *poke * *poke *
The wife and I miss one of your sayings. You used to say "What are you doing? What is your plan?". We love that!
I love that enclosure. An absolute insect paradise.
yayyy congrats on finally winning the long journey of getting a true nephila for that beautiful inclosure Petko :P
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 ♥️
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 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
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. 💛
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.
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 ^^
I used to think isopods were filthy little things now I see they are actually earths little clean up crew.
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.
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!
Woooow man!!!
Such a NICE content! That time-lapse of her eating the roach was AMAZING!
Thanks for your work Petko! ^^
Happy Nephila day for you Petko!
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
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 just discovered a big female Nephila senegalensis in my garden here in South Africa. She has a huge web!
Fascinating! Thanks For showing these things in slow motion.
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
So funny she went and scavenge the leg after the main course of roach shake
"let me do some pokeing around... It might be a black widow"
"continuous to finger enclosure"
Plz never change ♥️♥️
Regardless of what you put inside... that enclosure is amazing!
What a smashing spider cant wait for follow ups on her ...
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
Cool photobomb at 16:41 from a cute reptile above you 🦎😁
I'm so jealous of all the cool critters you have😭
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.
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
All these badass killer spiders, then his hamster THEN BACK TO THE KILLERS
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 thank u for sharing your videos with the world and u also give us knowledge about animals thanks again my friend
haha you look so happy on the thumbnail
How cool she made the meal to go 😁🤘
Regarding the left over roach leg. "Waste not, want not."
the web the roach was walking on was not sticky. those kind of webs are made like velcro and only catch hairy insects.
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.
Love the thumbnail by the way, great pic. Super funny too, your facial expression is hilarious. Totally spot on. Lol
Funny thing is that's how it goes 1, 2 or 3 Out of thousands
Can't wait to see more feeding clips from that spider!
Cool stuff Petko! Nice haircut too!
Spider experts: what type of spiders do you think inhabited the enclosure?
She ate the roach like tempura.
Lightly battered.
Err, Webbed.
I remember you doing the opens on the coffee table. Awe
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!
Ha ha ,she drank up her meal like a capri
Sun drink!!!! Pineapple and roach!!!!
👌👌👌👌
Thank you.
Watching this video after work. Hello from Australia. Love your videos Petko
U seriously have me hooked on spiders now
the reason they eat the Web is It helps them too produce more wedding
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
Love the bermudia Bloom right there
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!
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.
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!
Some absolutely awesome clips here! Thank you!
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.
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.
Should definitely still try n get the lizard u want for this enclosure
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.
I love this enclosure. I think you should keep adding different insects and create an ecosystem.
Wahoo , new dark den . Always a good day when you upload a new vid .
Your new spider is super cool!!!
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 like that enclosure
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.
Orb weavers are so rad!
Hm. This spider looks a lot like the juvenile golden orb weavers we have in Korea aka the East Asian Joro Spider (Trichonephila clavata). It was the red marking on the tip of her abdomen and irregular web that look very similar. Trichonephila clavata also spin these massive irregular orb webs as well; I’ve seen them even intersecting with neighboring spiders, almost making this massive communal web. They call them banana spiders over here for their bright yellow abdomen once they reach adulthood(not to be confused with the wandering spider).
The true nephila spider was the friends and family we me made along the way
Eating the other webs first was so surprising And funny
The long awaited Nephilla
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
Thank you for this video!
wow! that is by far the best time lapse ive seen in a long time and its actually somethinm interesting keep it up!
Wonderful content so interesting and nobody else does that!
Here we call orb weavers “banana spiders” I’m guessing becuz of their yellow bodies lol
My bad. striped bark scorpion Southeast Texas style. not as totally toxic as Arizona 🦂
Just be careful if there are any spider species in the latrodectus (widow spider) genus or any closely related as they can catch other insects and spiders many times their size and aren't afraid to tackle large prey.
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!!!!
Love your content as always
love it petco!!
Is it weird that I'm creeped out by spiders yet I just found this channel and I love it?!?
Such a cool spider, love their colors and webs can't wait to see it web it all up!
Great video, bravo!
Thank you for this super interesting video 👌🏻
Beautiful inclosures
ou jee, , new haircut :) - thumb up comrade. Hvala for a new interesting video. Hope everything goes well.
What a beauty, I am so glad for you.
8:30 could it be a Steatoda sp.? Let us know if you manage to spot it, I'm curious
Is it weird that when she finally went to eat that roach, I thought "Oh, time to tap that keg?" I swear I'm not an alcoholic; it's just that little wrapped roach looked kind of like a rootbeer barrel candy, or something.
Hey, it has been 2 years since you did feature your balfouri, can we get an update about it. Can't wait to see your balfouri fortress. :)
The babies all died cause there was no flying prey in your enclosure for them to catch. Babies need to be fed regularly to survive, else they will wither away quickly if not in the wild.
When he wrote the title "HE MEANT IT"