On March 30th she laid her eggs and in customary fashion for this species, gathered them in a silk linked cluster which would be carried in her mouth throughout the incubation period of a lunar month.  During this time these mothers never eat, behaviour very different from most spiders which merely abandon their egg clusters straight after laying.

Eighteen days later the spiderlings are well developed in the eggs, one of which I've enlarged to show it's eight legs developing.

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