Tailed Cellar Spider

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The Tailed Cellar Spider has long, skinny legs and a body that looks like it has a little tail! These spiders love to hang out in dark, cozy places like basements and caves.

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

Aussehen

The Tailed Cellar Spider has a pale brownish to grayish, slender body with long, delicate legs. Its most distinctive feature is a segmented, tail-like abdomen that tapers to a point, visually differentiating it from other cellar spiders.

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Tailed Cellar Spider

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Female Tailed Cellar Spiders carry their eggs in their jaws until they hatch!

If a Tailed Cellar Spider loses a leg, it can grow a new one back!

Some Tailed Cellar Spiders live in groups, sharing a web like a community!

They don't build neat spiral webs; instead, they spin a tangled, messy "cobweb"!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Tailed Cellar Spider has a flexible, segmented "tail" that helps them balance and quickly reorient themselves during movement or web repair.

Tailed Cellar Spider can sense tiny vibrations in their messy, irregular webs because of sensitive leg hairs that help them locate trapped prey.

Tailed Cellar Spider can play dead by freezing and dropping from its web, because this trick helps them escape from approaching predators.

Tailed Cellar Spider can hunt other spiders, even dangerous ones, because they are quick and wrap prey in silk from a safe distance.

Maße und Details

Body Length Mm: 3 mm
Leg Span Mm: 50 mm
Lifespan Years: 3 Jahre

Ernährung und Fütterung

These stealthy hunters mostly eat insects and other spiders caught in their messy webs.

Hauptnahrung

flies
mosquitoes
moths
other spiders
small invertebrates

Nahrungssuche

Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

common house fly

Musca domestica

Frequently captures house flies in its web.

hunts

southern black widow

Latrodectus mactans

Known to hunt and kill dangerous black widow spiders.

eaten by

common wall lizard

Podarcis muralis

Lizards may prey on cellar spiders encountered in homes.

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