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Old 04-05-2008, 04:54 PM
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Re: Purse Web Spider

That's a Tegenaria species or common house spider.
The purse web spider is Atypus affinis. The purse web spider is more common in the South, scarce and local, and is usually found in small colonies. Very hard to find even when you know where they are as they live their lives in a web 'sock', most of which is below ground and the section above ground is well camouflaged to the surrounding ground. It pierces the prey that lands on the exposed section of 'sock' with its fangs, rips open the sock and drags the prey inside, repairing the tear later.
Fascinating spiders and well worth a google!


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