Birth, Babies, and Beyond!

The mother spider lays 50 to as many as 2,000 eggs and swaddles them in layers of silk.  The silk egg case will protect the babies from predators while keeping the moisture level and temperature just right
The newly hatched spiders are called spiderlings.  They emerge from the eggsac ready for action.  Sadly, in the wild, very few spiderlings actually survive to adulthood
For those who do make it to adulthood like this Chilean Rose Hair tarantula from South America, well, let's just say....."look out bugs!"