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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!

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

Aspecto

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

Categoría

Invertebrate

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Messy Web Weaver

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

Habilidad

Vibration Vanisher

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

Habilidad

Spider Hunter

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

Medidas y detalles

Weight G
0.05 g
Lifespan Years
1 años

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • flies
  • mosquitoes
  • moths
  • other spiders
  • silverfish

Método de búsqueda

  • Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

También conocido como

Marbled Spider

Colecciones

Seguridad

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuánto pesa Marbled Cellar Spider?

0.05 g

¿Cuánto vive Marbled Cellar Spider?

1 años

¿Qué come Marbled Cellar Spider?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Marbled Cellar Spider?

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

¿Cómo caza Marbled Cellar Spider?

Ambush

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