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spider can potentially spend the whole of her life in the one same web, whereas the sexually mature male is forced to leave his home when it becomes time to reproduce. The male begins his hunt for females in the warmer months of the year, from summer through to early autumn. Although the details of
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combs the silk of the web. As the web is occupied for long periods of time, with the female spider even remaining in her web for the entirety of her life unless compelled to move silken additions and restorations are carried out nightly, resulting in a disorderly looking web which becomes
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is an average-sized spider, with males attaining a maximum length of no more than 11 millimetres (0.43 in), while females are marginally larger with a maximum body length of 15 mm (0.59 in). Its common name, grey house spider, is due to colouration on the
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Simo, M., Laborda, A., Jorge, C., Guerrero, J. C., Dias, M. A., & Castro, M. (2011). Introduction, distribution and habitats of the invasive spider
Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) in Uruguay, with notes on its world dispersion .
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Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) in Uruguay, with notes on its world dispersion".
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have also been found in cemeteries in artificial flowers, which therefore suggest that they are very suitable to refuge. The species primarily are found living in tree trunks, rock walls, retreats, leaves, and tangled webbing in green shrubs.
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itself is not often sighted as it feeds at night and will stay hidden in its retreat during the daytime. Furthermore, it generally does not go wandering into households in search of a mate as with other common species of
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Simo, M., Laborda, A., Nunez, M., & Brescovit , A. D. (2015). First records of the invasive spider
Badumna longinqua (L. Koch) (Desidae) in southern Brazil with notes on the habitats and the species’ dispersion.
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Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) in Argentina: New distributional records, with notes on its expansion and establishment.
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on ships, planes, trains, and merchandise. The species was only first reported in New
Zealand in the twentieth century. The range expansion of the species is due to human activities. This is because
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and abdomen, which are carpeted with light-grey hairs and spot-like markings and legs, which are purplish-brown in colour with hairs arranged into stripes on each leg. The similarly coloured brown
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seems to be less reliant on a synanthropic relationship with people and can also be located in woodlands, along immediate coastal areas, within agricultural ecosystems, and recently in vineyards.
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plantations elsewhere provide an abundance of potential homes for the spiders, which often take up residence on the trees, positioning their hideaways under loose bark. In the
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courtship have not yet been formally described, and biology of the spider is not well studied, it is acknowledged in most cases to be a solitary spider. The lifespan of
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and presumably in other countries, grey house spiders are frequently preyed upon by the cosmopolitan long-bodied cellar spider or "daddy long legs" (
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silk is used for the connecting zig-zag patterned threads of the web. Located in the spider's rear legs, the
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