I always had a high regard and passion for M balfouri, but this stupid tart made me wonder how they survived on Sokotra for ten trillion years...

The biggest, fattest female in my ensemble of M balfouri started excavating like crazy over the weekend. I bumped the temperature to 30 degrees and gave her a drop of water.

Early Monday evening, I saw her sitting on a thick mat of webbing, OUTSIDE her burrow (hide). My first reaction, she is going to molt.

Tuesday morning, I found her sitting on a massive egg case, BUT, she forgot to close it up.

By this morning, she was back inside her burrow, the eggs all dried out.

I mean honestly, do you clean out your bathroom, light a perfumed candle, dim the lights, then go crap on the lawn? I freaken give up...

In retrospect, it is I that is stupid.

Looking at the size of the webbing, it might be that her hide was to small.

Anyway, was nice talking to myself...