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  2. Evarcha culicivora - Wikipedia

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    E. culicivora is a jumping spider. Jumping spiders are hunters, who have little use for webs. [10] They actively hunt their prey, and therefore do not build a web to capture prey. [4] Instead, they make silk nests or shelters under leaves. [10] Their nests are built for protection and mating. [2]

  3. Spider silk - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, spiders may use silk as a food source. [1] While methods have been developed to collect silk from a spider by force, [2] gathering silk from many spiders is more difficult than from silk-spinning organisms such as silkworms. All spiders produce silk, although some spiders do not make webs. Silk is tied to courtship and mating.

  4. Maevia inclemens - Wikipedia

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    The cephalothorax and abdomen are joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel, which allows the abdomen to move while spinning silk. [8]: 571-574 While most jumping spiders do not build webs to catch prey, they use silk for other purposes, [9] including molting and laying eggs. [10]: 495

  5. Giant, flying Joro spiders make creepy arrival in ... - AOL

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    Joro spiders can create large webs that can be up to 10 feet wide. A Nephila clavata, a type of orb weaver spider native to Japan where it is called joro-gumo or joro spider, waits in its web for ...

  6. Jumping spider - Wikipedia

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    Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, [1] making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. [2] Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in courtship, hunting, and ...

  7. Portia labiata - Wikipedia

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    a: ^ Jackson and Blest (1982) say, "The resolution of the receptor mosaic of Layer I in the central retina was estimated to be a visual angle of 2.4 arc min, corresponding to 0–12 mm at 20 cm in front of the spider, or 0–18 mm at 30 cm." b: ^ Several species of cursorial spiders drink nectar as an occasional supplement their diet, and juveniles of some orb-web spiders digest pollen while ...

  8. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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    The web of a funnel-web spider Tegenaria duellica. Many spiders, but not all, build webs. Other spiders use a wide variety of methods to capture prey. Web: There are several recognised types of spider web. Spiral orb webs, associated primarily with the family Araneidae; Tangle webs or cobwebs, associated with the family Theridiidae; Funnel webs,

  9. Phidippus clarus - Wikipedia

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    Almost all jumping spiders are predators, mostly preying on insects, other spiders, and other non-aquatic arthropods. [1] The most-common procedure is sighting the prey, stalking, fastening a silk safety line to the surface, using the two pairs of back legs to jump on the victim, and finally biting the prey. [ 3 ]