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Safari Tip:
To help you identify house and garden spiders there's a beautifully
illustrated fold out chart in the Nature Shop - click
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Latin name: Pholcus phalangioides
Size: Approximately 10mms
Distribution: Found throughout the U.K. especially common in the south.
Months seen: All year.
Food: Small insects and mites
Habitat: Always found in houses and sometimes in caves
Special features: Almost transparent when young they can often go
unnoticed as they hang upside-down in a flimsy web of criss-cross threads in the
corner of a ceiling. As they grow their bodies become a pale brown colour.
If you disturb them they shake and gyrate their bodies so quickly that they
become a blur.
The females carry their eggs in a loose bundle.
UK Safari Spider Section
UK Safari Creepy-Crawlies Section
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