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Photo: Chris Green
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UK
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: Segestria florentina
Size: Males can be between 10 and 16mms long. The females average between
15 and 22mms long, although the one photographed above was around 30mms long.
Distribution: Found mainly in southern England.
Months seen: June to October.
Food: Flies, beetles and other small insects.
Habitat: Under stones or logs, and in holes in walls, trees and wooden
fences.
Special features: By UK standards the tube web spider is a large spider.
It is nocturnal, and has six eyes arranged in three groups of two.
 The abdomen is long and
cylindrical, and the first three pairs of legs all point forwards. The jaws are
an iridescent green colour.
As it's name suggests, the tube web spider builds a tubular retreat from silk. The
entrance to the tube is surrounded by silk 'trip wires' which alert the spider to the presence of prey.
The tube web spider is usually found around the locations of ports and docks
which would indicate it was probably introduced to the UK some time ago on
ships.
Eggs are laid in the tubular retreat and the female guards the young until they disperse. Sometimes the mother dies
before they disperse, and is eaten by the young.
UK Safari Spider Section
UK Safari Creepy-Crawlies Section
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