A few days ago, I found this little one in my sink. It’s the middle of winter, and even the house spiders are chilly and brumating for the most part, so it was a surprise to see it trapped in my kitchen sink.
There are a lot of ways to react to finding spiders in places you don’t think they should be, but I think it’s good to practice kindness. However, I can’t put this one outside. It was -1F with a -30 wind-chill.
So instead, I placed her into Hadah’s old enclosure, a little 4x4x8 acrylic. It already had dirt and moss and old snail shells in the bottom, and a clean up crew thriving. She immediately ate two of the isopods, and by today she has webs up all over inside, and was out sunning herself at the top. She let me get a picture before scurrying to safety.
I’ll keep her fed and hydrated until spring, and let her go in the yard, I think. Hopefully she’s still young, and will grow her missing leg back in the next molt or two.
