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Daddy Long-legs
The tiny little specs in the background are her babies!
These spiders are great to have around as they eat all the other little pests like ants etc.
If you touch their webs it will shake itself and the web violently so that it is difficult to see amongst its web strands, a kind of defense mechanism.
Smeringopus pallidus is a cellar spider in the Smeringopus genus. Appearance: Roundish, truncate behind, extending downward in front of eyes. Two vertical brown lines below eyes in front, brown median band from eyes to rear margin, brown lateral margins. ABDOMEN: Elongate, twice or more as long as wide, with median rows of paired brown spots forming incomplete chevrons, and lateral row of about four brown arcs on each side. LEGS: Extremely long and slender, four or more times body length. EYES:.. more
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