Spider Identification Card

SPIDER IDENTIFICATION CARD Orb Weaver Sheet web Weaver Funnel Weaver Cobweb Weaver

Grass Spiders These spiders build webs Bowl & Doily Spiders These spiders build a web with Cellar Spiders shaped like wheels with Sheet weavers hang under a tunnel at one side in which Cellar spiders have very long, spokes and a sticky spiral of their webs waiting for prey to the spider lies in wait. When thin, slender legs and thin thread for catching prey. They land. They bite from below and an insect lands, the spider white or gray bodies. They have poor vision, but can feel pull the prey through, dashes out and drags its prey build tangled webs with sticky vibrations of prey caught in the wrapping it up to eat later. The back into the tunnel to eat. threads from which they hang web. This one is called the Bowl and Doily web is also Their front body section is upside down. When disturbed, Shamrock Spider. called “cup and saucer” often pear-shaped. they shake the web rapidly. Cobweb Weaver Wanderer Wanderer Wanderer

Wolf Spiders hunt along the Crab Spiders hold their legs House Spiders build tangled ground or in basements by out to the side like a crab. webs with sticky threads in day and by night. Their eight Jumping Spiders have short Often found in flower vegetation or buildings. Many eyes are arranged in three stocky legs and they are often blossoms, they lie in wait to have large rounded abdomens rows. Females carry an egg hairy and colorful. They have ambush insects that come to and comb-like feet. They throw sack attached to their two large and six small eyes drink nectar. They have short, a sticky thread over their prey spinnerets, and when the arranged in three rows. They broad bodies and eyes on and then bite it to inject spiderlings hatch, they ride on move with jerking gait, stalking bumps. They hold their prey poison. Black Widows are their mother’s back until they their prey and taking giant over their heads while they cobweb weavers. are ready to hunt alone. leaps to pounce upon it. drink them dry.

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