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October 13, 2025 Coco is remodeling-and she scraped her butt! Our Mexican Red Rump tarantula, Tliltocatl vagans, “Coco,” is quite the character. She was one of our first tarantulas and has grown rather quickly over the past two years. Coco lives in a coconut shell that I repurposed as her hide. Lately, she’s been spending…
Linkhorn Biosphere Annex Log for October 11, 2025 It’s a beautiful, cool October Saturday. I decided to create a Linkhorn Annex, positioning it indoors near light for better observation and control. Whether this endeavor stems from a genuine scientific interest or simply a need for a project remains to be seen. The Annex is housed…
Linkhorn Biosphere Log for October 7th, 2025: The Apocalypse Well, it seems that the Linkhorn is dying—it’s turning black. There are probably several reasons: not enough oxygen, not enough light, and who knows what else, but it’s definitely declining. As noted in other entries, I did observe some micro-life in there, so it’s not totally…
Linkhorn Biosphere Log for October 6, 2025 This morning, I went outside on the porch to check on the Linkhorn biosphere, which I got from the bay out here. It was still dark, unlike yesterday, and not very clear. I had left the lid on a bit loose to allow some oxygen in, but this…
I am creating a biosphere—arguably an ecosphere, but I’m calling it a biosphere because that’s what my old brain can remember. I’m using a jar that used to hold kimchi. I live near a branch of the Lynnhaven River, which stems from the Chesapeake Bay—Linkhorn Bay, I think, or something like that. Anyway, it’s a…
It’s been 21 days since we first saw these little eggs and now they have evolved into eggs with legs. This the clutch of eggs that I previously posted on my Facebook page Emay’s Critters and it is from one of my wife’s tan jumping spiders (Polycryptus undatus). Her name is Toto; she is the…
Little Miss Muffet: Little Miss Muffet She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighten’d Miss Muffet away. A few days ago, my son came to me saying there was a spider on the kitchen floor, “…and it looks like a tarantula…