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Old 29-09-2007, 02:38 AM
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Re: Mouse spider behaviour (no pic)

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Originally Posted by Venger View Post
Hmm you sure it was a 'mouse' spider? (they usually have a 'furry' abdomen hence - looking like a mouse, rather than the shiny, smooth looking brown spider)
Sadly 'mouse spider' covers quite a large group of spiders Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae have all been called mouse spiders, mostly they are nocturnal hunters, though there are a few that hunt during daylight.
Generally wandering spiders will take what they can get, so this might have just been an oppotunist attack.
Yeah but it was like it had experience of being in that type of web. And it was definitely a Mouse spider, and it looked furry and silky, like you say. They are not called mouse spiders because of their furry abdomen you know, it's to do with the stop-start movement they have, like a mouse.
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