Goliath Birdeater From Birth to a New Generation #goliathbirdeater #amazon #spiderman

beneath the rainforest floor a giant female Goliath bird eater guards a silk sack the size of a tennis ball and inside it nearly 200 tiny lives slowly take shape over six to eight weeks when the pale spiderlings Finally emerge They live. on the yolk they were born with and they shed their fragile skins once more and once again as their bodies grow stronger and darker At last, the young spiders slip out of the burrow in different directions. and one of them senses the trembling of a small insect and rushes out to Seize it with its front legs and fangs ants swarm from every side and force the young spider to flee into a crack in the earth yet over two or three years it keeps molting and growing until it becomes a giant hunter that will one day guard a sack of its own After years of growth, A giant female Goliath birdeater lies in ambush at her burrow, and seizes a cricket that wanders too close with her front legs and fangs. A smaller male with long thin legs discovers her burrow and drums his legs with care and mates with her using his pedipalps, and then slips away before her fangs can reach him. Months pass as she feeds and lines her burrow with silk. and then she lays dozens of eggs on the silk mat and wraps them in layer after layer until a thick cream sack is complete she carries the sack beneath her body and turns it again and again and covers it with stinging hairs from her abdomen until pale spiderlings hatch inside and molt and spill out to begin a new generation