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UP CLOSE WITH SPIDERS – PHOTO GALLERY – PISAURIDAE
Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae)
These are free-ranging spiders which hunt among grass and low
vegetation or along the edges of streams and ponds. The females carry egg-sacs under
the front part of their body, the cephalothorax. Just before the eggs hatch, the female
spider builds a large tent-web among low vegetation and places the egg-sac inside. She
then keeps guard over the eggs, or the spiderlings when they hatch, outside the web. Hence
the name Nursery Web Spiders.
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