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  2. Nursery web spider - Wikipedia

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    Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. [1] Females of the family are known for building special nursery webs. When their eggs are about to hatch, a female spider builds a tent-like web, places her egg sac inside, and stands guard outside, hence the family's common name.

  3. Palystes superciliosus - Wikipedia

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    When the egg hatches, the larva eats the paralysed spider, keeping the spider alive as long as possible by eating peripheral flesh first, and saving the vital organs till last. By doing this, the spider stays fresh long enough for the wasp larva to mature and pupate. [4]

  4. Pisaurina mira - Wikipedia

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    After they hatch, and until their first molt, the infant spiders inhabit the rather large volume enclosed by this nursery web. The mother spider stations herself nearby to defend the nursery. [ 4 ] The responsibility of parental care is upheld solely by the female, as males who survive the sexually cannibalistic female during mating depart to ...

  5. Matriphagy - Wikipedia

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    Desert Spider, Stegodyphus lineatus, one of the best-described species that participates in matriphagy Matriphagy is the consumption of the mother by her offspring. [1] [2] The behavior generally takes place within the first few weeks of life and has been documented in some species of insects, nematode worms, pseudoscorpions, and other arachnids as well as in caecilian amphibians.

  6. Platycryptus undatus - Wikipedia

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    Eggs are laid and hatch during the summer, and adults and other stages overwinter in their individual silken shelters. Although the shelters are built separately and keep the spiders out of direct contact with each other, Kaston reports that as many as fifty of them may crowd their shelters for hibernation together so tightly that they form a ...

  7. Tetragnatha versicolor - Wikipedia

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    Each egg sac may contain as many as 103 eggs, each around 0.66 mm in diameter. Mature spiders can be found from April to September. [1] It is unclear how long T. versicolor can live, but it is speculated that they can live at least a year. Once spiderlings hatch, they will molt several times before reaching maturity. [8]

  8. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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    Spider behavior refers to the range of behaviors and activities performed by spiders. Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom . They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms [ 1 ] which is reflected in their ...

  9. Jumping spider - Wikipedia

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    Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019 [update] , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species , [ 1 ] making it the largest family of spiders – comprising 13% of spider species. [ 2 ]