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Old 27-04-2008, 06:28 PM
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Cellar Spider playing dead.

This morning there was a Pholcus phalangioide in the bath, a very large one, huge abdomen. Anyway nothing unusual about that, I find them all over the place. I moved it out of the bath and placed it on some ladders that are in the bathroom. It's still there and doing a very good job of playing dead. In fact for several hours I did think it was departed as it was hanging on a thread and was completely lifeless. I was worried at first as it half fell down the plug hole when I was rescuing it and I thought it had inhaled some water however on closer examination I discovered it was moving its legs slightly so I know it's alive but it's been hanging there now for a good 10 hours.

Just wanted to add on I haven't bothered about a photo as it's against a white background so probably would burn out a bit.
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