American Nursery Web Spider

Pisaurina mira

The American Nursery Web Spider is a friendly spider that likes to live in gardens and fields. It has long legs and can be spotted easily as it hunts for insects to eat.

Lebensraum: Gardens and fields

Aussehen

The American Nursery Web Spider has a slender, pale brown to gray body, often with a distinctive dark stripe running down its back. Its long, spiny legs extend radially, giving it a somewhat crab-like appearance. Unlike web-building spiders, it lacks prominent spinnerets for large capture webs.

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American Nursery Web Spider

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A mother spider guards her silk nursery tent until her babies emerge!

Female spiders carry their large egg sac in their mouthparts until it's time!

They can sprint across water to catch insects or escape predators!

Unlike most spiders, they don't use webs to catch their meals!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

American Nursery Web Spider can blend perfectly into vegetation because of its camouflaged body, helping them ambush prey undetected.

American Nursery Web Spider can create a protective silk tent for its eggs and newly hatched young, safeguarding them from predators.

American Nursery Web Spider has specialized leg hairs that allow it to skim across the surface of water, helping it hunt aquatic insects.

American Nursery Web Spider can rapidly chase and pounce on unsuspecting insects because of its keen eyesight and swift legs.

Maße und Details

Größe: 10-16 mm
Lebenserwartung: 365-730 Tage
Anzahl der Beine: 8

Ernährung und Fütterung

These spiders are predators that hunt a variety of small insects and other invertebrates.

Hauptnahrung

grasshoppers
flies
crickets
caterpillars
small spiders

Nahrungssuche

Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

American Robin

Turdus migratorius

a common bird predator

eaten by

Common Wasp

Vespula vulgaris

some wasps can prey on spiders

hunts

House Cricket

Acheta domesticus

a common prey item

hunts

House Fly

Musca domestica

a swift airborne insect prey

Merkmale

Einzelgänger

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Netzbauer

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Getarnt

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