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Marbled Cellar Spider

holocnemus pluchei

The Marbled Cellar Spider is a fascinating little creature that loves to hide in dark corners. Its unique marbled pattern helps it blend into its surroundings!

Lebensraum: They live in dark, damp areas like basements, caves, and under rocks.

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The Marbled Cellar Spider has a pale yellowish-brown body with distinct dark, marbled patterns on its abdomen. Its long, fragile legs are notably slender, often featuring darker rings at the joints, making it distinct from other cellar spiders.

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Marbled Cellar Spider
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Marbled Cellar Spider

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

0/5 · Keine bekannte Gefahr

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Interessante Fakten

Despite their delicate looks, these spiders can capture and eat prey much larger than themselves!

Female Marbled Cellar Spiders carry their egg sac in their jaws until the spiderlings hatch!

They are sometimes called 'daddy long-legs' but are not true daddy long-legs!

They pluck other spiders' webs to lure out prey, a clever hunting trick!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Messy Web Weaver

Marbled Cellar Spider can spin loose, tangled webs that help them efficiently trap various flying and crawling insects.

Fähigkeit

Vibration Vanisher

Marbled Cellar Spider has incredibly long legs that allow it to vibrate its body rapidly, blurring itself to confuse predators.

Fähigkeit

Spider Hunter

Marbled Cellar Spider can use its agility and venom to hunt and overpower other spiders, even larger ones, in their own webs.

Maße und Details

Weight G
0.05 g
Lifespan Years
1 Jahre

Ernährung und Fütterung

These expert hunters trap insects and other small arthropods in their messy webs.

Hauptnahrung

  • flies
  • mosquitoes
  • moths
  • other spiders
  • silverfish

Nahrungssuche

  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Spider

Parasteatoda tepidariorum

They are known predators of other house-dwelling spiders.

hunts

Western Black Widow

Latrodectus hesperus

Marbled Cellar Spiders are known to kill and eat black widows.

hunts

House Fly

Musca domestica

They efficiently catch and consume common household flies.

eaten by

Common Wall Lizard

Podarcis muralis

Small lizards may occasionally prey on cellar spiders.

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Auch bekannt als

Marbled Spider

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

0/5 · Keine bekannte Gefahr

Always look but do not touch spiders!

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Wie viel wiegt Marbled Cellar Spider?

0.05 g

Wie lange lebt Marbled Cellar Spider?

1 Jahre

Was frisst Marbled Cellar Spider?

These expert hunters trap insects and other small arthropods in their messy webs.

Wo findet man Marbled Cellar Spider normalerweise?

They live in dark, damp areas like basements, caves, and under rocks.

Wie jagt Marbled Cellar Spider?

Ambush

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