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  2. Poisonous brown recluse spiders are coming out of hiding for ...

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    The usually hidden venomous spiders come out in the summer when people are moving or cleaning. ... See photos of the brown recluse spider: Greyson's mother, Leanne Bryant, rushed the boy to the ...

  3. The 10 Most Common House Spiders to Look Out For, According ...

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    Spiders are beneficial bugs that help control other pest insects such as flies, adult mosquitoes, ants, etc.” Capture and release can look like using a cup and a piece of paper to capture and ...

  4. Spitting spider - Wikipedia

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    The spider usually strikes from a distance of 10 to 20 millimetres (0.39 to 0.79 in) and the entire attack sequence only lasts 1/700th of a second. [5] After making the capture, the spider typically bites the prey with venomous effect, and wraps it in the normal spider fashion with silk from the spinnerets.

  5. How to rid your home of spiders, according to a pest pro - AOL

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    Fredericks says late summer and early fall are peak seasons for spiders, and plentiful rain in any region during the summer can cause insect populations to boom, creating more food for spiders.

  6. Scytodes thoracica - Wikipedia

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    Scytodes thoracica is a spitting spider, so called because it spits a venomous sticky silken substance over its prey. Its size ranges between 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in). The carapace is unusual in sloping upwards towards its rear end, whereas the abdomen slopes downwards. It has six eyes instead of the eight spiders usually have.

  7. Projectile use by non-human organisms - Wikipedia

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    The spitting spiders Scytodes can spit a venomous sticky fluid that traps its victims and also poisons them. [1] The bombardier beetle is unusual by using a violent exothermic chemical reaction to launch a boiling noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen, accompanied with a popping sound.

  8. The Best Way To Keep Spiders Away From Your Home ... - AOL

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    Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips. It’s estimated they kill 400 to 800 million metric tons of prey worldwide ...

  9. Selenopidae - Wikipedia

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    Selenopidae, also called wall crab spiders, wall spiders [1] and flatties, [2] is a family of nocturnal, free-ranging, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. [3] [4] It contains over 281 species in nine genera, of which Selenops is the most well-known. This family is just one of several families whose English name ...