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I need some orbweavers for a bio research project and I'd really like to pay less than $21.50 per spider before shipping the bio supply company charges. I'd like to use european garden spiders, but I don't have the budget to be picky about the species as long as they are all the same species. They can't be any smaller than the european garden spider (6.5-20mm females, 5.5-13mm males) because I will be offering them precisely-measured drops of water to drink and there's a lower limit to how small a drop I can offer. I don't need them for six weeks. I'm in St. Louis. Is there any chance I'll find some for sale at a pet store or locate a local breeder? Given how cold it is around here, how good are my chances of finding some wild live ones?
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Saturniid19 posted:How many do you need? Most American orb weavers die once the weather gets cold, so you're not going to find any wild ones in St. Louis in January. Suggestions: I totally forgot to get back to you. Your advice was interesting, possibly helpful, and ultimately wasted on me as the project was spiked for a half-dozen different reasons. --- Search is down and I couldn't find the critter quest thread manually, so I come here. I caught this one a few weeks ago, but decided to kill it and take pictures after finding one in my bedsheets today. Despite that I was bitten on the hand while sleeping a few weeks ago and have a little scar to show for it, I am willing to live and let live as long as they aren't extremely venomous and stay the gently caress out of my bed. I live in St. Louis, MO and the only kinda-dangerous species of spider it can convince myself at 4 AM that it could be would be brown widow. While I'm kind of curious what it is I really just want to hear "nope not dangerous at all carry on citizen".     Remnants of the web; I just sprayed raid directly into the mason jar when it made a dash for freedom. 
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