I'm someone who's unreasonably entertained by animals doing mundane things. "Spiders Doing Cool Spider Things" is *exactly* the kind of stuff I like to watch. Kudos for catching and recording this!
This was awesome thanks!!! I have an unidentified house spider I haven't identified but she lives in a web near the ceiling and I sing, "youuuu are a spider in my hooouuuuse!!!!" and tell her she is a very polite spider.
I've never stopped to think about just how energy intensive spinning & laying an egg sac must be for a spider. Outside they must be really vulnerable to predators during this activity....Thanks for giving me a new appreciation for just how hard spider moms work to bring their young into this world.
These types of videos are really cool while taking a break from the deep dive videos! It mixes the variety of content up a bit, and when you can make more you'll be able to tell what spiders your audience is most interested to learn more about.
That's cool to learn that her eating him actually affects the young. I wonder if it makes a difference if she eats a different male or even a different species of spider. Are we going to get to see the eggs hatch? Do you have a dedicated time lapse camera or anything? Thank you for sharing Donna's story, and I love the opening!
@@travismcenery2919 There should be ways you can use a phone (like an old one) as a webcam and possibly set it to only record when there's motion. I'm not sure if the free apps are still around or not. It was to set up old phones as security cams but could serve this purpose.
I once found one of those on the wall behind my pillow while I was falling asleep. I don't remember a time I shrieked as loud as I did when I saw it in the corner of my eye.
We had a box delivered at work with a bunch of these spiders inexplicably in it you should have heard the girls screaming! I put them in Tupperware containers and gave them water and the girls watched them drink. I took them home and put them on the back of the garage where they were right at home. I have a pond and they breed at water. Absolutely love your Channel
When i was a teenager, having an ill advised rendezvous with a girl who didnt like wearing shoes, when an absolutely huge member of this species ran across her foot. I got to carry her across the bridge in our snall town. Thank you big ass spider
That was amazing!! I've seen females carrying around their lil egg sacks, but I had no idea about the effort and complexity involved. And 8 (legged)-course meal beforehand o.o I can't wait for the Dolomedes video!!!
Go for it! But don't mess with her if she's got an egg sac, they get quite protective. An arachnologist I know did get bitten by a widow once, while trying to retrieve the egg sac.
i found one of these on the floor of my cabin in Vermont last night. Largest spider I have ever seen, probably around 4 inches across. She had a giant egg sack. i had seen her living in a crack in my floorboards a month or two ago and let her be. She had gotten quite a bit bigger when I found her. I covered her with a cup and gently moved her outside at the base of my porch without hurting the eggs. She quickly disappeared and I hope she found a good place to have her babies and some better habitat. Intersting to learn she was a fishing spider and living inside my home. I wonder what she was eating and how she survived.
Yooooooooooooo I can't believe you were able to capture this footage. I don't think I've ever seen clear video of this happening. Grade A content!!!!!!!
I had several of these Dolomedes tenebrosus about ten years ago, given to me by a guy who kept finding them in his pool house. One was even so damaged as to having only four legs, but she did survive under my care. Two of my dock spiders produced egg sacs, (and I have only seen Tigrosa helluo build egg sacs), and I released them in my back yard. One of them had at least a 1,000 little spiderlings. The 400 steel spider sculpture in my yard actually is painted to look like a Dolomedes tenebrosus.
Thank you so much for this video. I have a dark fishing female on my front porch. I knew she was getting big. Overnight she made her egg sac. As you said, exactly like a golf ball. She looks so proud of it. I was hoping to find how she did it, and your video gave me that.
Your deep dives are awesome and I regularly share tidbits from them with my family and friends (and then share links once they’re hooked 😉). That said, I LOVE these smaller, bite-size videos. Oh, who am I kidding, I love all your content. I’ve spent the last few years working to overcome my arachnophobia, and your sudden appearance in my feed felt like a reward for the progress I’ve made. Once I’ve settled after my upcoming relocation I hope to be able to support you on patreon. You’re doing excellent work, and you’re a valuable example of how research should be done. (Plus I love your theme songs!)
Thanks so much for this! I'm glad the channel has been helpful, and congratulations on your progress with your arachnophobia. They're beautiful creatures once you start learning about them. Good luck with your move!
That is indeed a spider doing a cool thing. I never got to see the white porch spider on my window do this, because she did it while I was sleeping, but I did get to watch her drag web wrapped prey up to her retreat which was still pretty cool
Hey Travis! I found your channel a few hours ago and I found the concept so interesting that I made it my first ever patreon subscription! I’m working as a Algonquin backcountry trip guide for the summer and I’m so excited to show the youth some of your videos if they express an interest in spiders/ conquering their fear of them. I’m really looking forward to watching and supporting your future content❤️ also if you have any interest in Robertus riparius, I’d love to see a video on them as they are the spider that scares youth the most due to their tendencies to hide in our tent vestibules and backpacks during cold nights.
And you out cooled the spider with YOUR cool thing - to wit, sharing the awesome footage and your knowledge...........I really enjoy these little glimpses into the arachnid world - though nothing compares to one of your deep dives!
I've seen these! Now I know what they are. How amazing that you got to see the whole thing! I certainly did enjoy that! Amazing to get to see her both make the sac and lay the eggs. The way she deposits silk and then fluffs it looks like it kinda tufts the silk which probably helps with volume, padding, and insulation of the sac.
my mother (who puts up with my excited spider info sharing and pictures) does a lot of fibre arts and after explaining something very complicated she simplified it by saying that "She's felting, sort of" when I asked her why she was stretching and tapping the silk when she was laying the disc and walls. apparently it does make it bunch up but in a specific way, so that's cool! Yay for fibre arts and their continued overlap with various spider activities!
This was so interesting! I recently opened a bin in my garden which I store logs in and found a medium sized spider with a very large abdomen nestled in a funnel, I wanted to handle it so I pulled it out carefully and let it wander on my hand for a while before placing it back. Fast forward a while and I opened the bin again to check on my friend and noticed a hatched egg sac with many new spiderlings scattered about. Made for a super cool video (not youtube video as I post) keep up the good work!
I love these spiders. One of my favorites. One somehow managed to get herself into my bathtub last year... she was as big as my palm... I needed a box to get her out, but once in the sunlight, I was floored by her pattern and color. Wish I got a picture 😅.
definitely a cool event, that footage is so interesting it's almost on par with some Planet Earth footage, can imagine David Attenborough narrating it lol
These are the Spiders... Just outside your house;);) Sweet, maybe you'll do an orb weaver video in the fall. You know, the kind that like to lay down piano strings for you to walk into in the early morning hours:) Nice catch BTW!
I saw one carrying an egg sac when I was cutting weeds last week. At first, I thought she was twice as big, then that the egg sac was prey. I hadn't known they carried the egg sacs around.
I found one of these on my room and am keeping her as a very much beloved pet. I’m a novice when it comes to keeping arthropods, so if anybody else keeps them I’d love to hear ways to improve her life.
Wow!!! you beat me to it!!! I was about to ask you to speak about the Dolomedes. We often go to St-Michel des Saints north of Montreal on the side of a beautiful lake where these spiders live. They get real big (for Quebec spiders) and can walk on structures under water if we disturb them. I have photos of them with the sack full of eggs. They sometimes deposit the sacks in cedar trees on the side of the shore next to the docks. The babies are funny when you get near they all scatter in a cartoon fashion....to come back seconds after...Anyway it's your show I talk too much...!!! but massive thanks that one is very mysterious to us it would be cool to learn more about them.!!! Cheers!!
0:46 in my neck of the woods I’d call that one a wittle baybe… I took my daughter salamander hunting the out night, we were looking in cracks between bedrock beneath a big slab limestone overhang… both on hands and knees with a spiky rock about a foot overhead and we’re both raised up into it in the past… it hurts! As we’re backing out I look up and my headlamp caught major eye shine… I knew exactly what it was! once we were out I had my daughter come look, it was a big mama dark fisher with no sack yet but her abdomen was as big as a marble and her span was still under 4”, big, not huge tho! As a kid I had a spot on the creek where I could always find big ones, 4 inchers all day! I got to watch them snag minnows from the water, once I even saw one hanging upside down under a big rock that was balanced about 2” above the water and she managed to reach in the water and grab a minnow without going underwater… but it’s still more fun to watch them drag an air bubble underwater with them as the hunt… they usually use all 8 legs to grab prey so it’s a wild fight to see one grab a fish underwater, struggle then flit to the top with the fish… At any rate the biggest one I ever caught was scary big… when I got it home and shook her out of the quart jar that she was crammed into and put her in one of those big 1gallon pickle jars… when she laid fully flat on the bottom her legs would not only cover the bottom, but she could actually touch both opposite side walls at the same time. Exceptionally large seems an understatement! You hear people in the states talk about “spiders as big as your hand” but thus big girl could give your hand a full on hug if she wanted to… that is a hug that I will pass on!
5:04 I was actually thinking they should get their own episode, when I released this behemoth beast I decided I’d just do it in the basement, my logic was; mom made me do the laundry (washer was down in the basement) because every time she went down there she’d see “these huge spiders” which were indeed dark fishers but were in fact pretty small… I figured if the basement can support 100 smaller fishers then it should support her just fine! And the circle of life repeats, my brother lives in that house now and his nosy kids are scared to go into the basement with all those big spiders😅 Those were the spiders in MY house lol
I think it's usually other dolomedes species that you see near water, but they're very closely related. D. triton and D. scriptus live and hunt in water like this, I think. D. tenebrosus is an outlier, often living far from water. But they're all fascinating. Love the laundry room story!
@@travismcenery2919 I typed out a while big response and discarded it, I just sound like a jerk in text/comments even when I specifically try not to come off bad🤷🏽 I’m pretty sure my ID is good on this one in there’s a look a like. It just dawned on me that you probably think I’m talking about them being ON water, and I’ve not seen them voluntarily go out skating on the water like D.triton does, but I’ve definitely found them with 2 or 3 legs out touching the water with the other legs holding fast to a rock, waiting for prey, as well as plunge themselves under for a kill. When they do they use all their legs to strike and let go of whatever they’re holding and use all 8 to wrangle their prey, theyll often attack that same way on land, a furious rush towards the target and suddenly the spider jerks and instantly curls up in the dead position… it psyched me out several times, to me is looks like they’re doing a excellent show of playing dead… but then they pop up real quick and usually have some small prey rolling around in their palps. They do better than most spiders when forced to swim, excellent at not breaking surface tension… but a far cry fro the graceful strokes of some species. I’m quite a fan, not many spiders I know of are as much fun to play with, active and bold, big and a great feeding response, rarely skiddish which makes for easy viewing and all round a good candidate for teaching… not so cute as a jumping spider, but there’s a good many folks that are not attracted to cute things while still being terrified of spiders… also known as… “average joe”… see cuz guys are tough and like tough guy stuff and not cute fuzzy critters with oversized eyes… seriously tho jumpers are the #1 pro-spider lobbyist… but for the key demographic of males age 7-14 tenabrous is putting up big numbers. Cheers! Keep the vids coming
Thank you for the awesome informative video. That was actually really cool and I look forward to the full video. I definitely noticed the movements of her abdomen and spinnerets as she was laying the silk for her egg sack. She was definitely putting out a lot of silk at a time from the looks of it. I also think that eating the male might be recycling his body for the future spiderlings and that it helps have all of the key nutrients that the baby spiders need to receive from the mother. It's just a hypothesis of mine, but it does make sense. Many spiders eat the males upon mating and that could possibly be why. I don't know that for sure, but it's an idea to the mechanism. Anyway, thank you for everything you do.❤️🕷️
I live in a very active Hogna carolinensis habitat and I’m realizing how much it has skewed my idea of what qualifies as a big spider. I’ve seen them with abdomens as thick as fingers and legs that extend from the top to the bottom of my hand. Not commonly, but I have seen it and it really scares my family
What fun! I mean, not the cannibalism part. Your presentations are information-dense but at the same time clear and easy to follow. Nice job, as always.
I have 1 of those and have successfully introduced the species to my property by getting females over successive years and keeping them for pets. Whenever they would lay eggs and they would start to hatch I would move the terrarium outside in a shaded area and wait for the babies to leave. Once they would leave through the gaps in the lid I would bring the mother back inside and start feeding her again. When the mother puts the egg sac down after carrying it for a few weeks and starts to spin a web it's time to get her outside quickly. You don't want all of those babies hatching in your house.
Ahh, the ever startling Dolomedes tenebrosus. I have a weird fondness for this species, given their occasional tendency to turn up without warning on our walls and freak out the arachnophobes in the house. I can't blame them too much, these bad girls get up to a 4-inch legspan. But they've never bitten anyone. I don't think they even mean to end up indoors. Wood walls are just too much like tree trunks. I had the privilege of seeing an egg sac 'hatching' on our bathroom ceiling once. Don't know how long the mother had been there, but she'd managed to keep out of sight till then, and she was still guarding them as they came out. I had to relocate them all, regrettably. Mom ended up in the woods, and I gathered up as many of the babies as I could and tucked them under a railing on our seldom-used back porch. What's interesting is that another, somewhat smaller adult Dolomedes was also hanging out on that ceiling. Not sure what its motive was. Obviously it wasn't the father, lol. On that note, the bit about the males dying during mating is REALLY interesting. I knew that happened in a few species, but wasn't aware this was one of them.
Yeah, I can definitely understand people being freaked out by these spiders. I'm intimidated a bit by them myself, just on account of their size - and if you've ever seen them strike prey, they are FAST. So it's very understandable. Glad you are so kind to the ones you find!
Amazing footage and the self- sacrifice the males do is super interesting. I caught a Barn Funnel Weaver from my basement and put it in a 10g aquarium. I think they make the perfect pets because they are pretty stationary. I think they are cooler than the grass spiders.
It is easy to see wolf spiders with white egg sacks when I'm cultivating the garden and if I think they might get squished I relocate them to a safe zone.
Some of my own personal info if you make a wolf spider episode. So I have my own pet wolf spiders and I did get the luxury of getting bit by one of them. Now the species I got bit by was a Hogna carolinensis so I can only describe the pain from the largest species in North America but anyway, the pain from the bite came more from the fangs and oh my gosh, it hurt like hell. I can describe the pain from the fangs as like two sewing needles puncturing my skin and digging down a little. Her fangs were around half a centimeter long and dug in pretty deep in my skin. The venom itself didn't affect me that much. The venom swelled up my thumb quite a bit and it felt a little tight moving my thumb. The venom also made my thumb itch a lot.
@@BigBoobsMcGoo i actually only had itching during the last half of the affects. My thumb swelled like 20 if percent larger but it wasn’t interfering with my thumb usage.
@@kg-Whatthehelliseventhat my mom gave me some cream that relieved the itchiness when it got bad. It wasn’t that scary, aside from my swollen thumb getting in the way of me typing, it wasn’t that bad.
@@cds3703 cool. I'm glad you are ok. I got bit 1 time on my cheek. It made a quarter size hole and got swollen then each pore had pus coming out. Idk what kind of spider it was. Glad your ok. Take it easy. :)
Good evening Mr McCleary this is Karen from Santa Ana CA and a subscriber of five months. I thoroughly enjoy your videos as I have been an insect lover particularly spiders since I was a little girl. Might I suggest next time you sing an intro into your program jog about taking a shot at iron maiden s rhyme of the ancient Mariner that would have been fo fitting for this video Lololol stay safe and careful❤
okay correcting. We have D. fimbriatus which is fine and D plantarius, whose numbers seem to go down - but the really rare one isnt dolomedes but the diving bell spider, shes aquatic, Argynoreta aquatica. its funny, the two dolomeidae look a bit like some wolf spider and list spiders, they all have those snazzy lines
Yeah, dolomedes are similar to wolf spiders in many ways. Even the eye arrangement is close, but not quite the same. And diving bell spiders are fascinating. I've yet to actually see one, though.
You'd be surprised what you can get with a phone. Tune into the livestream on Sunday with Sebastian Echeverri, and he'll teach you how to make the most of it!
I'm terrified of spiders... with that said... I've been slowly getting over this. It started with the cute little jumping spider videos.... then I ran into tarantula kat here on youtube... and NOW YOU!! I'm excited to watch all of your videos... this one was amazing... how long does it take for her babies to hatch and do they become eggs with legs like tarantulas? Will you post a video of the new babies if they work out? Thanks so much for your time... and thanks for teaching us about these little life souls...
👍Very interesting! I've seen some Mom Fishing spiders with egg sacs, but never saw one in the works! Great info. I suspect Mom has to be present to release them from the 'golf ball' when they hatch, too, with her care being even more complex than just laying the eggs and creating the sac. 🕷🕸
I just found you on Reddit…. I want to learn about spiders because I am terrified of them…. How does the male know he will die after he impregnates the female? I find this fascinating!
I'm someone who's unreasonably entertained by animals doing mundane things. "Spiders Doing Cool Spider Things" is *exactly* the kind of stuff I like to watch. Kudos for catching and recording this!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
This was awesome thanks!!!
I have an unidentified house spider I haven't identified but she lives in a web near the ceiling and I sing, "youuuu are a spider in my hooouuuuse!!!!" and tell her she is a very polite spider.
Aww, love this. Thanks for the comment!
Awesome, I play guitar for my indoor spiders. Heck even the outdoor one’s too :D
I've never stopped to think about just how energy intensive spinning & laying an egg sac must be for a spider. Outside they must be really vulnerable to predators during this activity....Thanks for giving me a new appreciation for just how hard spider moms work to bring their young into this world.
These types of videos are really cool while taking a break from the deep dive videos! It mixes the variety of content up a bit, and when you can make more you'll be able to tell what spiders your audience is most interested to learn more about.
Thanks for the feedback, that's helpful. Glad you enjoyed it!
That's cool to learn that her eating him actually affects the young. I wonder if it makes a difference if she eats a different male or even a different species of spider.
Are we going to get to see the eggs hatch? Do you have a dedicated time lapse camera or anything?
Thank you for sharing Donna's story, and I love the opening!
I don't have a time lapse or anything set up, and I still haven't figured out what I'll do when they hatch, but if I catch it, you'll see it!
@@travismcenery2919 There should be ways you can use a phone (like an old one) as a webcam and possibly set it to only record when there's motion. I'm not sure if the free apps are still around or not. It was to set up old phones as security cams but could serve this purpose.
@@TrineDaely interesting... I should look into that. Thanks!
Isn't it common sense? A starving spider will make less eggs than a full spider, I mean eggs are made of nutriments.
I once found one of those on the wall behind my pillow while I was falling asleep. I don't remember a time I shrieked as loud as I did when I saw it in the corner of my eye.
That would give even me a scare. They're big spiders.
I have tarantulas by my house. Biguns.
We had a box delivered at work with a bunch of these spiders inexplicably in it you should have heard the girls screaming! I put them in Tupperware containers and gave them water and the girls watched them drink. I took them home and put them on the back of the garage where they were right at home. I have a pond and they breed at water. Absolutely love your Channel
that is so cool ^^
Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying the channel!
When i was a teenager, having an ill advised rendezvous with a girl who didnt like wearing shoes, when an absolutely huge member of this species ran across her foot. I got to carry her across the bridge in our snall town. Thank you big ass spider
I love fishing spiders! They're so pretty. I made a minecraft skin of them
I sure hope you mean a texture for spiders and not an actual player skin
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That must have looked cool!
You've joined the ranks of accounts whose videos I hit the thumbs up for as soon as I start the video.
Aw, thanks! The support means a lot!
That was amazing!! I've seen females carrying around their lil egg sacks, but I had no idea about the effort and complexity involved. And 8 (legged)-course meal beforehand o.o
I can't wait for the Dolomedes video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks! I'd love to fully cover this species at some point.
That is outstanding footage !! I think I'm going to get an enclosure and keep one of the Latrodectus I regularly find in my shop.
Go for it! But don't mess with her if she's got an egg sac, they get quite protective. An arachnologist I know did get bitten by a widow once, while trying to retrieve the egg sac.
i found one of these on the floor of my cabin in Vermont last night. Largest spider I have ever seen, probably around 4 inches across. She had a giant egg sack. i had seen her living in a crack in my floorboards a month or two ago and let her be. She had gotten quite a bit bigger when I found her. I covered her with a cup and gently moved her outside at the base of my porch without hurting the eggs. She quickly disappeared and I hope she found a good place to have her babies and some better habitat. Intersting to learn she was a fishing spider and living inside my home. I wonder what she was eating and how she survived.
Yooooooooooooo I can't believe you were able to capture this footage. I don't think I've ever seen clear video of this happening. Grade A content!!!!!!!
I count myself very lucky to have even seen it, let alone film it. Thanks for the comment!
What a fascinating and fortunate find! Really shows just how much work and how many resources spider mamas put into producing these egg sacs.
It really does. It's quite the task.
I had several of these Dolomedes tenebrosus about ten years ago, given to me by a guy who kept finding them in his pool house. One was even so damaged as to having only four legs, but she did survive under my care. Two of my dock spiders produced egg sacs, (and I have only seen Tigrosa helluo build egg sacs), and I released them in my back yard. One of them had at least a 1,000 little spiderlings. The 400 steel spider sculpture in my yard actually is painted to look like a Dolomedes tenebrosus.
Thank you so much for this video. I have a dark fishing female on my front porch. I knew she was getting big. Overnight she made her egg sac. As you said, exactly like a golf ball. She looks so proud of it. I was hoping to find how she did it, and your video gave me that.
Your deep dives are awesome and I regularly share tidbits from them with my family and friends (and then share links once they’re hooked 😉). That said, I LOVE these smaller, bite-size videos. Oh, who am I kidding, I love all your content. I’ve spent the last few years working to overcome my arachnophobia, and your sudden appearance in my feed felt like a reward for the progress I’ve made. Once I’ve settled after my upcoming relocation I hope to be able to support you on patreon. You’re doing excellent work, and you’re a valuable example of how research should be done. (Plus I love your theme songs!)
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Thanks so much for this! I'm glad the channel has been helpful, and congratulations on your progress with your arachnophobia. They're beautiful creatures once you start learning about them. Good luck with your move!
I really enjoy your vids. Easy to understand even for laymen, but full of good, nearly expert level knowledge! Wish I could afford to be a patron
No worries, it's great to just have you here. Thanks!
Very cool. It's amazing how much her abdomen has shrunk after the eggs were out.
That is indeed a spider doing a cool thing.
I never got to see the white porch spider on my window do this, because she did it while I was sleeping, but I did get to watch her drag web wrapped prey up to her retreat which was still pretty cool
Yeah, that's always fascinating to watch in nearly any spider.
Hey Travis! I found your channel a few hours ago and I found the concept so interesting that I made it my first ever patreon subscription! I’m working as a Algonquin backcountry trip guide for the summer and I’m so excited to show the youth some of your videos if they express an interest in spiders/ conquering their fear of them. I’m really looking forward to watching and supporting your future content❤️ also if you have any interest in Robertus riparius, I’d love to see a video on them as they are the spider that scares youth the most due to their tendencies to hide in our tent vestibules and backpacks during cold nights.
Very cool! Are you going to let the spiderlings hatch out in the enclosure so you (and we!) can get a good look at em?
Haven't figured that part out yet. Don't need hundreds of huge spiders inside the house, though, so I'll have to do something.
I love dark fishers! They tend to get in through my basement and end up on my walls, they get pretty massive! Real sweet, though :D
And you out cooled the spider with YOUR cool thing - to wit, sharing the awesome footage and your knowledge...........I really enjoy these little glimpses into the arachnid world - though nothing compares to one of your deep dives!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! Hoping to do a proper deep dive on this spider in the future.
I would love to see more spiders doing cool spider things. :)
I'll see what I can do!
I've seen these! Now I know what they are. How amazing that you got to see the whole thing! I certainly did enjoy that! Amazing to get to see her both make the sac and lay the eggs. The way she deposits silk and then fluffs it looks like it kinda tufts the silk which probably helps with volume, padding, and insulation of the sac.
One time a spider crawled across my chest as i was falling asleep, that sure woke me up lol
I look forward to the deep dive on the species!
my mother (who puts up with my excited spider info sharing and pictures) does a lot of fibre arts and after explaining something very complicated she simplified it by saying that "She's felting, sort of" when I asked her why she was stretching and tapping the silk when she was laying the disc and walls. apparently it does make it bunch up but in a specific way, so that's cool! Yay for fibre arts and their continued overlap with various spider activities!
This was so interesting! I recently opened a bin in my garden which I store logs in and found a medium sized spider with a very large abdomen nestled in a funnel, I wanted to handle it so I pulled it out carefully and let it wander on my hand for a while before placing it back. Fast forward a while and I opened the bin again to check on my friend and noticed a hatched egg sac with many new spiderlings scattered about. Made for a super cool video (not youtube video as I post) keep up the good work!
Thanks so much, and that's a cool thing to have observed!
Amazing footage! Thank you for sharing 😄
You're welcome, and thanks!
4:17 I enjoy the fact that nothing about this article's title implies that it's talking about spiders
I had not noticed that, and now its ALL I notice. And I love it too. ;)
I love these spiders. One of my favorites. One somehow managed to get herself into my bathtub last year... she was as big as my palm... I needed a box to get her out, but once in the sunlight, I was floored by her pattern and color. Wish I got a picture 😅.
Yes, they've got very beautiful markings. Glad you can appreciate them!
Nice cameo of the vibrating spider toothbrush!!
Haha, thanks Catherine, it definitely worked to help draw her out!
definitely a cool event, that footage is so interesting it's almost on par with some Planet Earth footage, can imagine David Attenborough narrating it lol
Thanks so much! He's got a cooler voice than I do, though.
So cool! How many spiders do you have in all? I would love a tour of all of them if you have any to show.
I think I've got eight right now - but it's 200+ if you count the wolf spider babies that just hatched and are currently riding around on mom's back.
Spider Cannibal Cafe is Spider Tinder. Congrats on your mommy status, Donna!!!
Hehe, I'll pass that along to her!
What a cute picture of her and her babies! I hope we get to see them hatch
I'll see what I can do. Don't really want them all hatching in the house, though...
These are the Spiders... Just outside your house;);) Sweet, maybe you'll do an orb weaver video in the fall. You know, the kind that like to lay down piano strings for you to walk into in the early morning hours:) Nice catch BTW!
This is just so awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us!!!
You're welcome, and thank you!
I saw one carrying an egg sac when I was cutting weeds last week. At first, I thought she was twice as big, then that the egg sac was prey. I hadn't known they carried the egg sacs around.
I found one of these on my room and am keeping her as a very much beloved pet. I’m a novice when it comes to keeping arthropods, so if anybody else keeps them I’d love to hear ways to improve her life.
We have a few different Dolomedes spiders here in New Zealand, they're all quite interesting. I'm especially fond of Dolomedes Minor
I don't know that species. But there are a few different ones in Nova Scotia, too - D. triton, D. scriptus, D. tenebrosus, possibly others as well.
Wow!!! you beat me to it!!! I was about to ask you to speak about the Dolomedes. We often go to St-Michel des Saints north of Montreal on the side of a beautiful lake where these spiders live. They get real big (for Quebec spiders) and can walk on structures under water if we disturb them. I have photos of them with the sack full of eggs. They sometimes deposit the sacks in cedar trees on the side of the shore next to the docks. The babies are funny when you get near they all scatter in a cartoon fashion....to come back seconds after...Anyway it's your show I talk too much...!!! but massive thanks that one is very mysterious to us it would be cool to learn more about them.!!! Cheers!!
I'm hoping to cover them fully in the future. Thanks for the comment!
I LOVE your videos and your narrating voice!!! PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS!!!!!
Really cool (and convenient) that she carries the egg sac around with her. Makes it easier for you to transport her outside before they hatch!
Yes, that's the plan. As much as I love spiders I don't need hundreds of these inside...
Binge watching your videos back to back- and adding comments for the algorithm~! 🌻👍 Keep up the great content!
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Wow, fishing spider parents are metal as hell.
They sort of are!
Oh Travis thank you. I. Did this with an orb weaver but she was living on my porch iBooks a camera & enlarged it.
Watching this at 5:00 A.M. has set a great mood for the start of my day. Loved it. Thank you.
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0:46 in my neck of the woods I’d call that one a wittle baybe… I took my daughter salamander hunting the out night, we were looking in cracks between bedrock beneath a big slab limestone overhang… both on hands and knees with a spiky rock about a foot overhead and we’re both raised up into it in the past… it hurts!
As we’re backing out I look up and my headlamp caught major eye shine… I knew exactly what it was! once we were out I had my daughter come look, it was a big mama dark fisher with no sack yet but her abdomen was as big as a marble and her span was still under 4”, big, not huge tho!
As a kid I had a spot on the creek where I could always find big ones, 4 inchers all day! I got to watch them snag minnows from the water, once I even saw one hanging upside down under a big rock that was balanced about 2” above the water and she managed to reach in the water and grab a minnow without going underwater… but it’s still more fun to watch them drag an air bubble underwater with them as the hunt… they usually use all 8 legs to grab prey so it’s a wild fight to see one grab a fish underwater, struggle then flit to the top with the fish…
At any rate the biggest one I ever caught was scary big… when I got it home and shook her out of the quart jar that she was crammed into and put her in one of those big 1gallon pickle jars… when she laid fully flat on the bottom her legs would not only cover the bottom, but she could actually touch both opposite side walls at the same time. Exceptionally large seems an understatement!
You hear people in the states talk about “spiders as big as your hand” but thus big girl could give your hand a full on hug if she wanted to… that is a hug that I will pass on!
5:04 I was actually thinking they should get their own episode, when I released this behemoth beast I decided I’d just do it in the basement, my logic was; mom made me do the laundry (washer was down in the basement) because every time she went down there she’d see “these huge spiders” which were indeed dark fishers but were in fact pretty small… I figured if the basement can support 100 smaller fishers then it should support her just fine!
And the circle of life repeats, my brother lives in that house now and his nosy kids are scared to go into the basement with all those big spiders😅
Those were the spiders in MY house lol
I think it's usually other dolomedes species that you see near water, but they're very closely related. D. triton and D. scriptus live and hunt in water like this, I think. D. tenebrosus is an outlier, often living far from water. But they're all fascinating. Love the laundry room story!
@@travismcenery2919 I typed out a while big response and discarded it, I just sound like a jerk in text/comments even when I specifically try not to come off bad🤷🏽
I’m pretty sure my ID is good on this one in there’s a look a like.
It just dawned on me that you probably think I’m talking about them being ON water, and I’ve not seen them voluntarily go out skating on the water like D.triton does, but I’ve definitely found them with 2 or 3 legs out touching the water with the other legs holding fast to a rock, waiting for prey, as well as plunge themselves under for a kill. When they do they use all their legs to strike and let go of whatever they’re holding and use all 8 to wrangle their prey, theyll often attack that same way on land, a furious rush towards the target and suddenly the spider jerks and instantly curls up in the dead position… it psyched me out several times, to me is looks like they’re doing a excellent show of playing dead… but then they pop up real quick and usually have some small prey rolling around in their palps.
They do better than most spiders when forced to swim, excellent at not breaking surface tension… but a far cry fro the graceful strokes of some species.
I’m quite a fan, not many spiders I know of are as much fun to play with, active and bold, big and a great feeding response, rarely skiddish which makes for easy viewing and all round a good candidate for teaching… not so cute as a jumping spider, but there’s a good many folks that are not attracted to cute things while still being terrified of spiders… also known as… “average joe”… see cuz guys are tough and like tough guy stuff and not cute fuzzy critters with oversized eyes… seriously tho jumpers are the #1 pro-spider lobbyist… but for the key demographic of males age 7-14 tenabrous is putting up big numbers.
Cheers! Keep the vids coming
Thank you for the awesome informative video. That was actually really cool and I look forward to the full video. I definitely noticed the movements of her abdomen and spinnerets as she was laying the silk for her egg sack. She was definitely putting out a lot of silk at a time from the looks of it. I also think that eating the male might be recycling his body for the future spiderlings and that it helps have all of the key nutrients that the baby spiders need to receive from the mother. It's just a hypothesis of mine, but it does make sense. Many spiders eat the males upon mating and that could possibly be why. I don't know that for sure, but it's an idea to the mechanism. Anyway, thank you for everything you do.❤️🕷️
That's actually one of the going theories, yes. Thanks for the comment!
That was FASCINATING! Thank you for sharing such wonderful footage!
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soo cool, this is the channel i never knew i needed
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That was very cool to watch the process up close.
I thought I was lucky to see it, yeah!
That was amazing. Thank you so much! Lots of love from New York !❤❤❤🕷
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I was amazed while simultaneously being grossed out.
Fair... I can understand that.
wow its always so interesting to see how different species handle procreation issues such as enough nutrients to produce strong enough offspring
Yes, there are a lot of interesting - and unexpected - ways different animals do this.
Wondrous! Wonderful! Thank You Cool Spider Step Dad!! LOVE the short stuff
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I live in a very active Hogna carolinensis habitat and I’m realizing how much it has skewed my idea of what qualifies as a big spider. I’ve seen them with abdomens as thick as fingers and legs that extend from the top to the bottom of my hand. Not commonly, but I have seen it and it really scares my family
Whoa! So cool that you were able to film it all!
I count myself incredibly lucky to have noticed it at the right time.
Perfect timing!
Happy it worked out!
What fun! I mean, not the cannibalism part. Your presentations are information-dense but at the same time clear and easy to follow. Nice job, as always.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
I have 1 of those and have successfully introduced the species to my property by getting females over successive years and keeping them for pets. Whenever they would lay eggs and they would start to hatch I would move the terrarium outside in a shaded area and wait for the babies to leave. Once they would leave through the gaps in the lid I would bring the mother back inside and start feeding her again. When the mother puts the egg sac down after carrying it for a few weeks and starts to spin a web it's time to get her outside quickly. You don't want all of those babies hatching in your house.
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering what to do with her once the hatching time gets near.
Ahh, the ever startling Dolomedes tenebrosus. I have a weird fondness for this species, given their occasional tendency to turn up without warning on our walls and freak out the arachnophobes in the house. I can't blame them too much, these bad girls get up to a 4-inch legspan. But they've never bitten anyone. I don't think they even mean to end up indoors. Wood walls are just too much like tree trunks.
I had the privilege of seeing an egg sac 'hatching' on our bathroom ceiling once. Don't know how long the mother had been there, but she'd managed to keep out of sight till then, and she was still guarding them as they came out. I had to relocate them all, regrettably. Mom ended up in the woods, and I gathered up as many of the babies as I could and tucked them under a railing on our seldom-used back porch. What's interesting is that another, somewhat smaller adult Dolomedes was also hanging out on that ceiling. Not sure what its motive was. Obviously it wasn't the father, lol.
On that note, the bit about the males dying during mating is REALLY interesting. I knew that happened in a few species, but wasn't aware this was one of them.
Yeah, I can definitely understand people being freaked out by these spiders. I'm intimidated a bit by them myself, just on account of their size - and if you've ever seen them strike prey, they are FAST. So it's very understandable.
Glad you are so kind to the ones you find!
I love spiders doing cool spider things!
Glad you're enjoying it!
Amazing footage and the self- sacrifice the males do is super interesting. I caught a Barn Funnel Weaver from my basement and put it in a 10g aquarium. I think they make the perfect pets because they are pretty stationary. I think they are cooler than the grass spiders.
I've got a barn funnel weaver that I've been keeping for months. They're pretty easy pets, yeah.
It is easy to see wolf spiders with white egg sacks when I'm cultivating the garden and if I think they might get squished I relocate them to a safe zone.
Thanks for doing that! I do it too.
Such a cool spider thang!
Waaay cool, Travis! How amazing your vid of this process is!!!
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Some of my own personal info if you make a wolf spider episode. So I have my own pet wolf spiders and I did get the luxury of getting bit by one of them. Now the species I got bit by was a Hogna carolinensis so I can only describe the pain from the largest species in North America but anyway, the pain from the bite came more from the fangs and oh my gosh, it hurt like hell. I can describe the pain from the fangs as like two sewing needles puncturing my skin and digging down a little. Her fangs were around half a centimeter long and dug in pretty deep in my skin. The venom itself didn't affect me that much. The venom swelled up my thumb quite a bit and it felt a little tight moving my thumb. The venom also made my thumb itch a lot.
"Quite a bit"
I must be sensitive to wolf venom because I expirence an *intense* and long lasting itch.
Sowhat did u do to treat the bite? Are you OK now? I'm sorry that happened to you. It sounds painful and scary.
@@BigBoobsMcGoo i actually only had itching during the last half of the affects. My thumb swelled like 20 if percent larger but it wasn’t interfering with my thumb usage.
@@kg-Whatthehelliseventhat my mom gave me some cream that relieved the itchiness when it got bad. It wasn’t that scary, aside from my swollen thumb getting in the way of me typing, it wasn’t that bad.
@@cds3703 cool. I'm glad you are ok. I got bit 1 time on my cheek. It made a quarter size hole and got swollen then each pore had pus coming out. Idk what kind of spider it was.
Glad your ok. Take it easy. :)
That's impressive footage to get.
I got lucky, really. Donna was very cooperative.
This is awesome. Youre one of my favorite channels Ive come across in a long time!
Thank you so much, glad to have you here!
Not a deadbeat, but a dead eat.
Like uber eats, but less of a menace...
Ok, I'll show myself out.
Haha!
Good evening Mr McCleary this is Karen from Santa Ana CA and a subscriber of five months. I thoroughly enjoy your videos as I have been an insect lover particularly spiders since I was a little girl. Might I suggest next time you sing an intro into your program jog about taking a shot at iron maiden s rhyme of the ancient Mariner that would have been fo fitting for this video Lololol stay safe and careful❤
I had some pictures and maybe a video about my coffee bean spider.
Great film footage. Thank you.
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Great Vid! I too feel a deep fascination for spiders
okay correcting. We have D. fimbriatus which is fine and D plantarius, whose numbers seem to go down - but the really rare one isnt dolomedes but the diving bell spider, shes aquatic, Argynoreta aquatica.
its funny, the two dolomeidae look a bit like some wolf spider and list spiders, they all have those snazzy lines
Yeah, dolomedes are similar to wolf spiders in many ways. Even the eye arrangement is close, but not quite the same.
And diving bell spiders are fascinating. I've yet to actually see one, though.
That's awesome. I managed to video my S. nobilis girl making hers. Only on my phone but still interesting.
You'd be surprised what you can get with a phone. Tune into the livestream on Sunday with Sebastian Echeverri, and he'll teach you how to make the most of it!
Thank you for sharing! This was amazing, my hubbs and I both really enjoyed this mini episode 😊
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Thank you! Honestly the coolest thing I've seen on UA-cam in ages! Will be sharing! ❤
Thanks, the shares always help!
Another awesome video Travis! Thanks.
You're welcome, and thank you!
Very cool i see these cannoeing
What a great catch, thank you for sharing!!
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I'm terrified of spiders... with that said... I've been slowly getting over this. It started with the cute little jumping spider videos.... then I ran into tarantula kat here on youtube... and NOW YOU!! I'm excited to watch all of your videos... this one was amazing... how long does it take for her babies to hatch and do they become eggs with legs like tarantulas? Will you post a video of the new babies if they work out? Thanks so much for your time... and thanks for teaching us about these little life souls...
👍Very interesting! I've seen some Mom Fishing spiders with egg sacs, but never saw one in the works! Great info. I suspect Mom has to be present to release them from the 'golf ball' when they hatch, too, with her care being even more complex than just laying the eggs and creating the sac. 🕷🕸
I suspect you're right. I know some wolf spider moms have to cut open the eggsac themselves when the eggs hatch.
I just found you on Reddit…. I want to learn about spiders because I am terrified of them…. How does the male know he will die after he impregnates the female? I find this fascinating!
Go lay on the ground and do a crunch. Now appreciate what a legend this hard working mother is!
Absolutely! It was almost exhausting just watching her.
Fantastic shots! What great timing to get the process right before she got the sides built!
Yup, I count myself lucky to have seen it in time. Thanks for the comment!
It was a really cool spider thing!
I thought so. Thanks for the comment!
I love your channel. You're so informative
This was so awesome, thanks for sharing!
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Fascinating and very cool, thanks for sharing.
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4 to 10 videos from now you'll be a 100K channel and we will all say "I was there!"
That's the hope! I'm working on more stuff.
This was awesome. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
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Wow, amazing footage, Travis! Fascinating! Kudos to you!
Thanks!
amazing!
Beautiful 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾