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Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, from the Ancient Greek word "λύκος" meaning "wolf". They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude and hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances. Some wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow.en.wikipedia.org/...
Pholcidae, commonly known as cellar spiders, daddy long-legs spider, granddaddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider and skull spider, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1850.[1] It contains over 1800 species divided in 94 genera.[2]
The common name "daddy long-legs" is the common name for several species, especially Pholcus phalangioides, but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups, including harvestmen, which are arachnids but not spiders, and crane flies.en.wikipedia.org/...
The name house spider is a generic term for different spiders commonly found around human dwellings, and may refer to:
- Yellow sac spider, Chiracanthium inclusum, a common house spider worldwide.
- Black house spider, Badumna Insignis, an Australian spider also found in New Zealand;
- Brown house spider, Steatoda grossa, a spider with cosmopolitan distribution;
- American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, a cobweb spider;
- Common cellar spider, of the Pholcidae family, also known as daddy long-legs in North America;
- Domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica, also known as barn weaver in North America;
- Giant house spider, Eratigena atrica (formerly Tegenaria gigantea);
- Hobo spider, Eratigena agrestis (sometimes called aggressive house spider);
- Southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis
- Tiny house spider, Oonops domesticus
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The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider,[1][2] black and yellow garden spider,[3] golden garden spider,[4]writing spider, zigzag spider, corn spider, or McKinley spider.[5] It is common to the contiguous United States, Hawaii, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. It has distinctive yellow and black markings on the abdomen and a mostly white cephalothorax. Its scientific Latin name translates to "gilded silver-face" (the genus name Argiope meaning "silver-face", while the specific epithet aurantia means "gilded"). Males range from 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in); females range from 19–28 mm (0.75–1.10 in). These spiders may bite if disturbed or harassed, but the venom is harmless to non-allergic humans, roughly equivalent to a bumblebee sting in
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Latrodectus is a broadly distributed genus of spiders, which is composed of both black widow spiders and brown widow spiders.[3][4][5][6] A member of the Theridiidae family, this genus contains 31 species,[2]including the North American black widows (L. mactans, L. hesperus, and L. variolus), the European black widow (L. tredecimguttatus), the Australian redback black widow (L. hasseltii) and the button spiders of Southern Africa. Species vary widely in size. In most cases, the females are dark-coloured and readily identifiable by reddish markings on the abdomen, which are often hourglass-shaped.
These small spiders have an unusually potent venom containing the neurotoxin latrotoxin, which causes the condition latrodectism, both named after the genus. Female widow spiders have unusually large venom glands and their bite can be particularly harmful to large vertebrates, including humans. Only the bites of the females are dangerous to humans. Despite their notoriety, Latrodectus bites are rarely fatal or even produce serious complications.en.wikipedia.org/...
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Huntsman spiders, members of the familySparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting.[citation needed] They also are called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometimes are referred to as wood spiders, because of their preference for woody places (forests, mine shafts, woodpiles, wooden shacks). In southern Africa the genus Palystes are known as rain spidersor lizard-eating spiders.[1] Commonly they are confused with baboon spiders from the Mygalomorphae infraorder, which are not closely related.
More than a thousand Sparassidae species occur in most warm temperate to tropical regions of the world en.m.wikipedia.org/...
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What's up in your yard this Spring?
Thursday, May 16, 2019 · 5:24:33 PM +00:00 · Angmar
Crab Spiders (Thomisinae)
The crabspiders are a group of very colourful spiders that live in flowers and stalk or wait motionless for their prey. Their poison is very deadly to insects as it kills the vicim almost instantanously. Crabspiders have rather long legs and often walk sidewards, just like crabs do. They are smaller than the well known Garden Spider. Some species of Crab spiders can even change their colour adjusting it to the colour of the flower or plant they live on.
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