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Southern house spider

Kukulcania hibernalis
OnskadelikOnskadelik vir mense. Niks om oor bekommerd te wees nie.
Spinnekoppe ByteEet: Insekte
Gevaar vir mense: LigSoos 'n bysteek of minder. Basies onskadelik vir mense.

The southern house spider is a large spider that lives in the Americas, from the southern United States to Argentina. It is often mistaken for the brown recluse, but it is not aggressive and rarely bites. Its males wander around looking for mates, and both sexes can squeeze through very narrow cracks.1

Leef in
Southern states of the USA, throughout Central America, some Caribbean islands, southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina1
Noord-Amerika, Suid-Amerika
Tuis
Females build radial webs around crevices and rarely leave them. Males wander in search of insects and females, and do not defend a particular territory.1
Lengte
5,1 cm (2 in)1
Topspoed
omtrent 1,1 km/h (0,68 mph)
Op land, rowwe skatting
Wat eet dit?
It catches insects in its web. It combs silk across a spiked plate called the cribellum, which frays the threads into a fine, velcro-like net that catches insect legs.1
Regtig waar!Foto van Southern house spider
Southern house spider. Foto: Juan Cruzado Cortés. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Hoe om dit te herken

  • Females are dark brown or black and more compact in shape, with often larger, bulbous bodies.1
  • Males have longer legs and unusually long, slender pedipalps (the leg-like feelers near the mouth).1
  • Males lack the violin-shaped marking on the front part of the body that the brown recluse has.1
  • The abdomen (rear part of the body) is covered in fine, velvety light grey hair.1
  • Both sexes may grow to about 5.1 cm across with legs extended.1

Word dikwels verwar met: Males are often mistaken for the brown recluse because they have similar colours and body structure. Male southern house spiders are usually larger, have no violin shape on the front of the body, and have long, slender pedipalps.1

Gifkrag

Byte

Gif kom deur sy giftande of tande uit wanneer dit byt.

Hoe gevaarlik is dit vir mense?

Gevaar vir mense: LigSoos 'n bysteek of minder. Basies onskadelik vir mense.

Males may seem aggressive, but they bite only when trapped. Their mouthparts are too small to easily get through human skin, so bites are unlikely to be harmful.1

Wat doen dit as dit bang is?

When it feels threatened, it instinctively plays dead, a tactic that works well against its common predators.1

As dit byt

  • Was die byt en sit 'n yspak daarop vir die pyn. Kry mediese hulp as die pyn erg is, versprei of die persoon sleg voel.

Bel altyd eers jou noodnommer (112, 000, 911). Dit is algemene noodhulpraad, nie mediese advies nie. Noodhulp-basiese beginsels

Bly veilig

  • Moet nooit aan 'n wilde dier raak, dit vang of terg nie, selfs nie 'n kleintjie nie, en selfs nie as dit lyk of dit slaap of dood is nie.
  • Gee dit spasie. As jy een raakloop, bly kalm, stap stadig terug en laat dit sy eie pad gaan.
  • As een jou byt: bly kalm, bly stil, bel jou noodnommer (112, 000, 911) of kom vinnig by 'n hospitaal uit. Onthou hoe dit gelyk het, 'n foto help.

Dit is nie uit om jou te kry nie. Dit gebruik sy gif om kos te vang of om homself te beskerm, en kruip baie eerder weg. Meer oor veilig bly

Hoe groot is dit?

Hoe lank is dit?

Southern house spider omtrent 5,1 cm lank (2 in)'n Skuifspeld omtrent 3 cm (1,2 in)'n Slimfoon omtrent 15 cm (5,9 in)
korter as jou pinkiekan 100 meter in 330 sekondes aflê (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot is Southern house spider in vergelyking met JOU?

Net wiskunde in jou blaaier. Niks word gestoor of enige plek heen gestuur nie.

Hoe vinnig is dit?

die moeite werd om te weet

Feite

1

It is a cribellate spider, meaning its silk is not sticky. Its web works by tangling silk into a velcro-like net.1

2

It can crawl through cracks as narrow as 0.66 cm, thanks to its long body and compact legs.1

3

It is almost blind, so it may crawl over anything in its path, living or not, without meaning to attack.1

4

Its mating ritual can last over an hour, with long pauses where neither spider moves much.1

5

Its family, Filistatidae, is known as the crevice weavers because the females build webs around cracks.1

Mite-breker

Mite: Southern house spiders are aggressive and bite people often.

Waarheid: Males may look aggressive, but they bite only when trapped, and their mouthparts are too small to easily penetrate human skin. Their crawling over things is not aggression, as they cannot see larger animals.1

Vir gifkenners

Wetenskaplike naam
Kukulcania hibernalis
Groep
Spinnekoppe
Familie
Filistatidae2
Orde
Araneae
Kontinente
Noord-Amerika, Suid-Amerika
Babas
Females produce clutches of about 129 eggs. Each egg is about 1.37 mm across.1
Gevaar vir mense
1 / 5: Lig3

Waar die feite vandaan kom

  1. Southern house spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Kukulcania hibernalis (iNaturalist): name en klassifikasie.
  3. Venom Wiki: die gevaarvlak, die tipiese grootte en die spoedskatting is ons eie. Kyk hoe ons dit uitwerk: Hoe ons gevaar gradeer.

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