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The nursery web spider
has an abdomen that's bigger than its cephalothorax. It is yellowish-brown
sometimes with a light to dark brown band down the middle of
its back. It has eight eyes. Its habitat is tall grass and shrubs
in old fields, meadows, and woods. It also may live in houses.
it eats small insects and occasionally larger ones. It does not
build a web to catch its prey but uses silk to build a nursery
web for its babies. The female is bigger than the male. The female
carries its huge egg sac in her jaws. The young spiderlings leave
after about a week.
Predators include
birds, insects such as wasps, snakes, lizards, frogs and fish.
Sometimes spiders eat each other.
I think the nursery
web spider got its name because it makes a nursery web and takes
good care of its babies.
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