Hi
I have spent some time trying to identify a spider I saw today. Turns out it was a Mouse spider (and a big one...)
I was putting some washing out when something caught my eye. It was a spider in a web on the kitchen windowsill. It was a shiny, smooth looking brown spider, about 1 inch long, and it was walking through a messy web really slowly and carefully (the spiders web belonged to a lace webbed spider, I found out.)
What happened next was very surprising - Another spider came out to attack the Mouse spider, but, quick as a flash the Mouse spider attacked it first, biting just below the other spiders eyes!
It certainly looked like the Mouse spider was 'luring' the Lace Web spider out of it's home so it could eat it!
Is this normal behavior for a Mouse spider? It must be quite intelligent imo
