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Agelenidae
Typical funnelweb
weavers |
Agelenids build
most of the large sheet-like webs found around homes and gardens. They run
on top of the sheets, which extend from tubular retreats where the spiders
hide. At times, the web even acts like funnel, with prey bouncing down the
sheet and into the retreat where the spider is waiting. |
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Araneidae
Typical orbweb
weavers |
Araneids build
classic orb webs, the flat webs with radials and sticky spirals. |
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Filistatidae
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Filistatids are
rarely seen but easy to spot by the welcome mats of glue-less but sticky
silk surrounding their holes. These secretive nocturnal spiders live in burrows, crevices and almost any kind of hole or crack in walls.
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Lycosidae
Wolf spiders |
Wolf spiders are
free-living or burrowing spiders, which almost always forage or sit in
ambush on the ground. Climbing is unusual. Females attach their egg sacs to
their spinnerets and the babies ride on her back for a few days before
dispersing.
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Oxyopidae
Lynx spiders |
Lynx spiders are
arboreal cousins of the the wolf spiders, ambushing insects high up in
grasses, shrubs and trees. |
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Philodromidae
False crab spiders |
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Pholcidae
Cellar spiders |
Cellar spiders are
the daddy long legs of spiders and are some of the most common household
spiders. They're the ones hanging round in wispy cobwebs. |
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Salticidae
Jumping spiders |
Unlike most
spiders, jumping spiders can watch you while you're watching them. Many of
these are very colorful, active and visual predators that hunt and stalk
prey during the day. |
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Sicariidae
Recluse spiders
and relatives |
Sicariids include
our infamous brown recluse spiders, whose bites can be very nasty. These
leggy spiders are nocturnal foragers, which may wander far from their
retreat or ambush spiders that get tangled in a loose matting of threads
around their retreat. |
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Theridiidae
Cobweb or
gumfooted web weavers |
This family
includes the infamous black widow spiders as many non-hazardous species,
which may be very common in and around homes. Their webs typically look like
a messy tangle, though there is method to the madness. |
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Thomisidae
Crab spiders |
Crab spiders have
the audacity to assume that food will come to them. They simply stretch out
their arms and wait. The trick, it seems, is to know where to wait. |
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Uloboridae
Hackleband
orbweavers |
Uloborids are
obstinate contrarians, who like to do things their own way, just a bit
different than everyone else. They do bother with venoms, use fluffy silk
instead of glue on the spirals of their orb webs and Hyptiotes has become
the master or twang with a balalaika-shaped web. |
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