NATURE UP CLOSE and PERSONAL
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NATURE UP CLOSE and PERSONAL ~ SPIDER GALLERY ~ PISAURIDAE (NURSERY WEB SPIDERS)
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.
This page revised on August 29, 2018. Copyright © Chin Fah Shin |
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