I wanted to photograph this
Neriene montana in her retreat, tucked underneath a groove in a plastic toy car. I must have touched the web, as she darted out and sat for a few moments in the middle of her sheet web. They are relatively common in the garden at the moment, and they can be easily distinguished from their relative
Linyphia triangularis by their boldly annulated legs. Judging by the large size of her abdomen, thin palps and full size this is an adult female. Contrast with a male, wandering in search of females (below). His palps are like black boxing gloves and his abdomen is about the size of its cephalothorax.
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What luck! I found one of these girls and have been keeping her to ID. She's been enjoying meal moths and compost flies from the lab. Also found a male on my ceiling, maybe I should have introduced them.
Thank you for commenting Amatuer EcoGeek, that sounds like fun, I have never thought of keeping spiders as pets, although they are all around the house anyway :-)
Yes our house too - I also have one living in my car - has spun a web across the dashboard and as a big softie entomologist I have not had the heart to move her!
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