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Spitting spider

Scytodes thoracica

Malunga negama: It is called a spitting spider because it spits a venomous, sticky silk substance over its prey.1

AsinangoziAsinangozi ebantwini. Akukho nto yokukhathazeka ngayo.

Izigcawu

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: KuthambileNjengokuhlatywa yinyosi okanye ngaphantsi. Phantse asinangozi ebantwini.

The spitting spider is a small spider that catches its prey by spitting sticky, venomous silk over it. It is found in many parts of the world, and it often lives in houses, where it wanders about at night.1

Sihlala

Europe, North Africa, Turkey, temperate Asia to China, Korea and Japan; introduced to North America, Chile, Argentina, India, Australia and New Zealand; South Africa1

IYurophu

Ekhaya

It is frequently found in houses, where it wanders about at night. In South Africa it lives in grassland and savanna, from 68 to 1444 m above sea level. It is often collected from under stones and in dark places on the soil surface.1

Ubude

6 mm (0,2 in)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-0,74 km/h (0,46 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It hunts mainly at night, when many insects are less active. It creeps up on its prey, measures the distance with one front leg, then squeezes its body and spits two silk threads in a zigzag over the victim. Larger prey may be spat on several times.1

Ifoto ka-Spitting spider — Spitting spider. Ifoto: carnifex. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Body length of 3 to 6 mm1
Has six eyes, not the eight that most spiders have1
The top of the front body (carapace) slopes upwards towards the rear, while the abdomen slopes downwards1
Long, slender legs1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

Its silk is venomous. The venom is carried in silk glands connected to venom glands, and it immobilises prey almost at once.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KuthambileNjengokuhlatywa yinyosi okanye ngaphantsi. Phantse asinangozi ebantwini.

Ukuba siyaluma

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Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

sincinci kangangokuba singahlala eluzipheni lwakho

U-Spitting spider mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Spitting spider malunga ne-0,74 km/h (0,46 mph)

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

It spits two silk threads in a zigzag pattern in about 1/600 of a second.1

Its silk glands in the front of the body (cephalothorax) are linked to its venom glands, so it can make venomous silk.1

It stops about 10 mm from its prey and measures the distance with one front leg before it spits, so as not to disturb the victim.1

It is thought to find prey using long hearing hairs on its legs.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Scytodes thoracica
Iqela: Izigcawu
Usapho: Scytodidae2
Ucwangco: Araneae
Amazwekazi: IYurophu
Iintsana: The mother builds a nursery web for the spiderlings after they emerge, and carries her eggs under her belly in a net of silk.1
Imeko yaso endle: Least Concern1
Ingozi ebantwini: 1 / 5: Kuthambile3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Scytodes thoracica (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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