Female spider, Pisaura sp., watching over her nest of young spiderlings. The female lays her eggs in early summer, storing them in a large, pale, sphe

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Female spider, Pisaura sp., watching over her nest of young spiderlings. The female lays her eggs in early summer, storing them in a large, pale, spherical egg sac which she carries around beneath her body. In midsummer, when the young are about to emerge, she hangs the sac on low vegetation and weaves a 'nursery' tent of fine silk strands around it. The young emerge and remain in the tent, with their mother on guard, until their second moult, when they disperse.

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Photo credit: © CLAUDE NURIDSANY & MARIE PERENNOU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: animal, arachnida, invertebrates, nature, nest, pisaura, sp., spider, spiderling, wildlife, zoology