https://vimeo.com/346514773
  • A Sac Spider Guards her Eggs is a video of a spider with her eggs in a rolled up alder leaf in Juneau, Alaska.
  • Joey Slowik identified it as belonging to the genus Clubiona one of the sac spiders.
  • I was able to keep them in a closed container until the young spiders left the nest.
  • Of interest is I looked carefully for the mom, with a binocular microscope, and there was no trace of her.
  • I suspect her kids fed on her.
  • For information about this behavior, which appears somewhat common among spiders, look at /sites/default/files/Wise20DH20200620Annu20Rev20Entomol_Cannibalism.pdf
  • In this book they state: In some spiders juveniles eat their mother before dispersing from the communal nest [termed gerontophagy, or more commonly matriphagy].