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The grass spider has
a cephalothorax that is yellowish with a pale center stripe with
two dark bands and light bands at the edges. Most grass spiders
have eight eyes. I lives in grassy areas and low shrubs, stone
fences and buildings. It eats insects. These quick running spiders
depend on speed to catch their prey. The grass spider makes a
funnel web in grass or bushes. It is horizontal with a funnel.
The female grass spider is bigger than the male. She puts her
egg sac under the bark of a nearby tree. Then she dies. The spiderlings
hatch in the spring and build webs away from one another. Predators
are fish, birds, insects, wasps, snakes, lizards, frogs, and
sometimes spiders eat each other. Humans sometimes try to destroy
them. Grass spiders resemble wolf spiders. |
