Southern house spider
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

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no
- 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
Wɔtaa fa no sɛ: 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
Bɔre ahoɔden
Bɔre fi ne se mu ba bere a ɔka.
Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?
Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛnyɛ denƐte sɛ wowa wɔ anaa ɛnnu saa. Ɛkame ayɛ sɛ ɛnni asiane ma nnipa.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
Ɛyɛ dɛn bere a ehu aka no?
When it feels threatened, it instinctively plays dead, a tactic that works well against its common predators.1
Sɛ ɛka a
- Hohoro baabi a ɛkaa no na fa ice pack hyɛ so ma yaw no. Hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa sɛ yaw no mu yɛ den, ɛtrɛtrɛw anaa onipa no ho ntɔ no a.
Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw
Hwɛ wo ho so
- Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
- Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
- Sɛ baako ka wo a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.
Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho
Wiase mu baabi bɛn?
Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?
Ne tenten te sɛn?
ɛyɛ tiaa sen wo nsateaa ketewa
ɛbɛtumi atu mita 100 wɔ anibu 330 mu (onipa a ɔwɔ ntɛm sen biara hia 9.6)Southern house spider kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.
Ne ntɛm te sɛn?
Nsɛm
It is a cribellate spider, meaning its silk is not sticky. Its web works by tangling silk into a velcro-like net.1
It can crawl through cracks as narrow as 0.66 cm, thanks to its long body and compact legs.1
It is almost blind, so it may crawl over anything in its path, living or not, without meaning to attack.1
Its mating ritual can last over an hour, with long pauses where neither spider moves much.1
Its family, Filistatidae, is known as the crevice weavers because the females build webs around cracks.1
Atosɛm sɛefoɔ
Atosɛm: Southern house spiders are aggressive and bite people often.
Nokorɛ: 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
Baabi a nsɛm no fi
- Southern house spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Kukulcania hibernalis (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
- Venom Wiki: asiane gyinabea, kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ ne ntɛm susuo no yɛ yɛn ankasa deɛ. Hwɛ sɛdeɛ yɛbu no: Sɛdeɛ yɛkyerɛ asiane gyinabea.
Nsɛm biara a ɛwɔ kratafa yi so wɔ nɔma a ɛkyerɛ ne fibea. Sɛ yɛfom biribi a, kafra, yɛyɛ mmoa ho akɔnnɔfoɔ, ɛnyɛ nyansahu nwoma. Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected] na yɛbɛsiesie.
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