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This small Miagrammopes spider keeps its legs close to its body and remains still looking like a piece of twig.
Photograph copyright: ozwildlife - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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SPIDER FACTS |
Description
These spiders look like a piece of twig. The front legs are very long.
Size
10mm including leg span
Habitat
bushland and gardens
Food
they build a single-line snare made of woolly silk which is fastened to a twig on one end and held taut by the first pair of legs at the other end. When an insect lands and hits the thread, the spider releases the line which springs back and entangles the insect.
Notes
Harmless to people. They do not have venom glands.
Classification
| Class: | Arachnida | | Order: | Araneomorphae | | Family: | Uloboridae | | Genus: | Miagrammopes | | Species: | sp2 | | Common Name: | Miagrammopes - unknown Spider species |
Relatives in same Genus
stick spider (M. unknown species)
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