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This spider was made well known in the book Charlotte's Web by writer E. B. White, with a particularly interesting point that the spider's full name is Charlotte A. Cavatica, a reference to the barn spider's scientific name, Araneus cavaticus. In addition, one of Charlotte's daughters, after asking what her mother's middle initial was, names ...
Male Underside of female with long spinnerets. Domestic house spiders possess elongated bodies with a somewhat flattened cephalothorax and straight abdomen. Their body/legs ratio is typically 50-60%. [4] T. domestica is one of the smaller species in the genus Tegenaria. Female body length averages between 7.5 and 11.5 mm (0.30 and 0.45 in) and ...
The name "barn spider" is also commonly used for a different spider, Araneus cavaticus. Generally nocturnal, females may become diurnal in the fall. [ 3 ] Females are about 9.5–19 millimeters (0.37–0.75 in) long, while males are somewhat smaller.
Neoscona, known as spotted orb-weavers and barn spiders, [7] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1895 to separate these from other araneids in the now obsolete genus Epeira. The name Neoscona was derived from the Greek νέω, meaning "spin", and σχοῖνος, meaning "reed". [8]
Spiders of this genus present perhaps the most obvious case of sexual dimorphism among all of the orb-weaver family, with males being normally 1 ⁄ 3 to 1 ⁄ 4 the size of females. In A. diadematus , for example, last-molt females can reach the body size up to 1 in (2.5 cm), while most males seldom grow over 0.3 in (1 cm), both excluding leg ...
Domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica, also known as barn weaver in North America; Giant house spider, Eratigena atrica (formerly Tegenaria gigantea) Hobo spider, Eratigena agrestis (sometimes called aggressive house spider) Geometric house spider or house button spider, Latrodectus geometricus (more commonly known as the brown widow)
The spider’s behavior was “surprising” but not entirely novel, he added, noting that some species of bolas spiders attracted male moths by producing chemicals that mimic female moth pheromones.
Larinioides sclopetarius, commonly called bridge-spider [1] or gray cross-spider, is a relatively large orb-weaver spider with Holarctic distribution. These spiders originated in Europe, have been observed as south as the Mediterranean Coast and as north as Finland, and have been introduced to North America.