She is already looking at you.

The registry

Every spider goes out with its papers.

A hundred spiderlings look identical for the first few weeks. Names are how you keep track of who is who — and who came from whom.

1. 01
   Pick an individual

   Every listing is one animal with its own name and its own record — not a species and a quantity.
2. 02
   Read the record

   You get its generation, its parents, and the date it last moulted — the things that actually matter when something is going to live on your desk for a year.
3. 03
   Overnight, Mon to Wed

   Insulated, and never when either end is too cold or too hot. If the week is wrong we wait for a better one. No amount of packing beats waiting.