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2. Social spider - Wikipedia

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   A collective web of Agelena consociata in Uganda.. A social spider is a spider species whose individuals form relatively long-lasting aggregations.Whereas most spiders are solitary and even aggressive toward other members of their own species, some hundreds of species in several families show a tendency to live in groups, often referred to as colonies.

3. Hysterocrates gigas - Wikipedia

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   These tarantulas will eat other invertebrates, such as crickets, cockroaches, butterflies, moths [3] and other spiders or small vertebrates, such as mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and occasionally birds. They are also known to be one of the only swimming spiders and will occasionally dive to catch fish.

4. Stegodyphus sarasinorum - Wikipedia

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   Spiders have been observed to grab onto the prey's leg and move away into an area when none of the spiders can see it eating first. Otherwise, all the individuals in the nest eat together, breaking away different portions to jointly divide the meal. Communal feeding occurs even with spiders who may not have taken part in the prey capture.

5. Philoponella congregabilis - Wikipedia

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   Philoponella congregabilis, sometimes referred to as the little humped spider, [2] is an Australian species of communal spider that, like other species of Uloboridae, does not use venom. Instead it wraps its prey in spider silk to crush it to death. [ 3 ]

6. Spiders could theoretically eat every human on earth in one year

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   Luckily, spiders eat mostly insects -- especially the ones you may also find in your home. ... March 28, 2017. So, moving on, spiders consume about 10 percent of their body weight per day. (If you ...

7. Stegodyphus dumicola - Wikipedia

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   Within the spider’s social group, all spiders in the group take part in web construction, maintenance, and prey capture. [3] Nests are large web structures composed of a compact combination of silk and nearby branch or desert brush. These nests are built in spiny bush twigs or trees close to the ground at a height of 0.5 to 1.5 meters high. [10]

8. 8-eyed creature — with personality like ‘Satan’ — discovered ...

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   In the mountains of Ecuador lurked an eight-eyed creature with a “bad temperament.” When scientists encountered the hairy animal, they discovered its bristly personality — and a new species.

9. Do sleeping humans really swallow 8 spiders a year? - AOL

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   But Rod Crawford, arachnid curator at the Burke Museum, said "spiders probably find sleeping humans terrifying" because we "create vibrations that warn spiders of danger."