Spider Building its Web
Jun 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
- Spider Building its Web was filmed on June 27, 2019 in Juneau, Alaska.
- It was doing this about 10 p.m. under a light that was on all night.
- The next day I looked at the web and it had caught loads of tiny insects that appeared to be no-see-ums and biting black flies.
- The spider was tentatively identified by Joey Slovik as Tetragnatha versicolor a species of Long-jawed Orb Weavers.
- To learn more about these spiders look at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Tetragnatha_versicolornomic Tetragnatha versicolor eats pest insects,
- According to this article this spider has a positive importance to humans because it eats insects that bite us.
- For more information about them also look at http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v28_n1/arac_28_01_0097.pdf.Aiken, M., F. Coyle. 2000. Habitat distribution, life history, and behavior of Tetragnatha spider species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of Arachnology, 28: 97-106. Accessed February 24, 2014 at http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v28_n1/arac_28_01_0097.pdf.Aiken, M., F. Coyle. 2000. Habitat distribution, life history, and behavior of Tetragnatha spider species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of Arachnology, 28: 97-106. Accessed February 24, 2014 at http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v28_n1/arac_28_01_0097.pdf. http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v28_n1/arac_28_01_0097.pdfAiken, M., F. Coyle. 2000. Habitat distribution, life history, and behavior of Tetragnatha spider species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of Arachnology, 28: 97-106. Accessed February 24, 2014 at http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v28_n1/arac_28_01_0097.pdf.
