Are spiders good parents?
Most spiders don't really look after their young. Many lay their eggs in a cocoon, for protection, but often the female will die before they hatch. Mother wolf spiders carry the cocoon attached to their spinnerets (the organ that makes their silk), and Pisaura carries her cocoon in her fangs until hatching time, when she builds a silk tent, on a plant, for the babies to live in. The tiny Theridion sisyphium lives in a thimble-shaped tent above its hammock web. In the tent it looks after the egg cocoon, then feeds the tiny babies below it with the regurgitated juices from the prey.
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