Established 2026
Gallery
Founder Female Feeding
The founder female consuming a small cricket within her enclosure. This image documents feeding behavior during the interval between Egg Sac #1 hatching and the project's first documented sling feeding event.
Founder and First Cohort
The founder female enclosure alongside storage totes containing individually housed sling enclosures prepared during early colony management, counting, and documentation efforts. This image provides context for the scale of the developing sling cohort and the project's recordkeeping process.
Founder Female
The Southern Black Widow founder female in her enclosure. Containers holding verified spiderlings from Egg Sac #1 are visible in the background following the September 24 colony count.
Verified Slings
Containers holding verified spiderlings following the September 24 count of 291 active slings. The image documents the scale of the project's first confirmed colony established from Egg Sac #1.
Sling Maintenance Workspace
Workspace used during hydration, verification, and maintenance activities for the captive-hatched sling cohort. Individual deli-cup enclosures, tools, and preparation materials are shown during the first major sling-management effort.
Egg Sac #1
The remains of Egg Sac #1 following the hatch event of September 19, 2026. The egg sac produced the first documented spiderlings of the Hourglass Exotics project.
First Feeding Day
Documenting the first feeding event performed for the project's captive-hatched Southern Black Widow sling cohort. Flightless fruit flies were introduced individually into sling enclosures during a feeding and maintenance session lasting approximately 5.5 hours.
Flightless Fruit Fly Culture
One of the feeder cultures used during the project's first documented feeding day. Flightless fruit flies served as the initial prey item offered to the captive-hatched sling cohort during feeding and maintenance activities.