The Survivors

Now that it is winter time, it has been a lot harder to find food for all the spiders to eat. Because of the overpopulation, many of the baby spiders have died and the ones remaining are struggling to survive.
A black garden spider that I have in my bottle habitat is also preying on the baby spiders, eating them for a nice snack. The garden spider and the environment limits of scarce food are controlling the population of the spiders.
Its cool to see how it is all working out. There are now 11 baby spiders left out of the original 38. The mom spider is also still alive. All together there is probably around 40 spiders including the garden spider. The picture is of the mom spider, up at the top of the bottle.