Arachnophobe's nightmare as man hits wolf spider and hundreds of babies burst out of egg sac – video
Have you ever had a nightmare involving spiders? Perhaps it went a bit like this ... A man attempting to kill a large wolf spider in Hallett Cove, South Australia, got a bit of a surprise when he squashed it with a broom and released hundreds of baby spiders from an egg sac. Female wolf spiders hold on to their egg sacs on their spinnerets and the young then crawl up onto her abdomen for safety – it is one of the only cases of maternal protection in the arachnid world. The man said he originally filmed the event in order to prove to his wife that the creature had been dealt with
Source: Daniel Ford/Viralhog
Tue 21 Apr 2015 00.32 EDT First published on Tue 21 Apr 2015 00.32 EDT
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