St Andrew's Cross Spider

The eggs of Saint Andrew's Cross Spiders are found in green egg sacks hanging from walls, branches, rock faces and other surfaces near the spider's web or in the web itself. They are about one and a half to two centimeters long.

This photo is of one of three egg-sacks in a web among potted bromeliads along the wall of a garden shed.

(Left) In the first moments of hatching babies spew forth and spread in a confused spray

(Right) Having broken free of their prison the mass of baby spiders follow their instincts and form the close mass they were familiar with before they came into the world. There is probably about 24 hours in this sequence so far

Gaining confidence the mass of babies spreads into smaller bunches. They would later spread across their mother's web for a few days. Since then they have moved to make tiny yellow webs the size of the head of a thumb tack all through the potted-plant garden

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