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Nursery Wed Spiders (Pisauridae)

THESE ARE free-ranging spiders which hunt among grass and low vegetation or along the edges of streams and ponds. The females carry egg-sacs under the front part of their body, the cephalothorax. Just before the eggs hatch, the female spider builds a large tent-web among low vegetation and places the egg-sac inside. She then keeps guard over the eggs, or the spiderlings when they hatch, outside the web. Hence the name Nursery Web Spiders.


Nursery Web Spider


Nursery Web Spider



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