Today, I found this beautiful spider that had a dark brown body, and brown legs with faint bits of orange. We are not
completely sure what this spider is, but we think it's likely to be a
Fishing Spider.
Fishing Spiders are normally found near water, but can be found quite far sometimes. It's diet is made mainly of animals 5 times as large as itself, such as
Tadpole, small fish,
Newts, and a lot of others.
Fishing spiders can skate on the water elegantly, then get a bubble of air and dive underwater, just lie a water boatman. They can live up to around a year. These spider lay around 1000 eggs in a sac, then put it on their backs, and when they hatch, they just hang on for a bit, till they are old enough to crawl away and start hunting.
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| Photo by Alex Sidney |
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| Photo by Alex Sidney |
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| Photo by Alex Sidney |
