Wildlife Gardening: Relocating a spider sac in danger, 1 by Socalhockeygal

Socalhockeygal wrote:
Hi everyone! I’m new here and posting this query. I found a similar posting on here related to relocating a spider sac near a home entrance, but I have a slightly different problem.

A few days ago I found a pretty Green Lynx spider in the backyard. She looked like she might be gravid, and I wondered if she would make an egg sac soon. I found her starting to make an egg sac this evening on the underside of a petal of the rose she’s been living on (managed to get a pretty cool video of her working on it as well!).

I looked this kind of spider up, and it sounds like the eggs won’t hatch for another 2 weeks or so. Since she’s laid the sac on the underside of the rose petal, I am very worried that the petal will fall soon as it dies back.

Should I attempt to move her and the egg sac? I’m wondering if I can remove a short section of the branch the rose is on and move it to another protected area. Somewhere that when the petal falls, it won’t fall far to the ground below or something like that.

Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated!