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The Goliath birdeater is native to the upland rainforest regions of Northern South America: Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, northern Brazil, eastern Colombia, and southern Venezuela. Most noticeable in the Amazon rainforest, the spider is terrestrial, living in deep burrows, and is found commonly in marshy or swampy areas. It is a nocturnal ...
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of this family are also known as flower spiders or flower crab spiders. [3]
Maratus jactatus (colloquially named sparklemuffin) [2] is a species of the genus Maratus (peacock spiders), an Australian member of the jumping spider family. Maratus jactatus are from the jumping spider group Salticidae. [ 3 ]
Australian Geographic shared a cool video on Friday, March 1st that explains why spiderwebs play an important part in understanding the ecosystem that lives around the webs, and it was fascinating ...
You won’t believe just how big some spiders can get! Watch our video spotlighting the ten biggest spiders on earth with some walking on legs over a foot in width.
However, Brazilian Wandering spiders and their predators have a different interaction dynamic, and the spiders often manage to defeat the hunting wasp. [citation needed] Once the spider is paralyzed, a female pompilid digs a burrow or flies or drags the spider to a previously made burrow. [15]
Spiders could, theoretically, eat every single human on earth within one year. It gets worse. Those humans consume about 400 million tons of meat and fish each year, so ultimately, the tiny ...
The genus was established in 1878 by German arachnologist Friedrich Karsch.The fringed jumping spider (Portia fimbriata) is the type species.[1]Molecular phylogeny, a technique that compares the DNA of organisms to construct the tree of life, indicates that Portia is a member of a basal clade (i.e. quite similar to the ancestors of all jumping spiders) and that the Spartaeus, Phaeacius, and ...