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They spin a tubular web, often in cracks of buildings. Six or more silken lines radiate from it, and the spider waits in the entrance, touching the lines with the frontal six legs. Prey triggering these lines get caught, and the spider immediately retreats again to eat it. However, in some cases the
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in an isolated population group that has been proposed as a new subspecies due to their fangs being brighter green and their size been significantly smaller to other
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863:"BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Tube web spider"
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526:"Green-fanged Tube Web Spider"
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660:. Thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
704:"Andy Seaman's spider lodge"
253:green-fanged tube web spider
251:. Some vernacular names are
473:A lot of specimens inhabit
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1200:Spiders described in 1790
837:Bioorganicheskaia Khimiia
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360:North Somerset, Swindon
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606:. BBC. Archived from
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494:neurotoxins
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300:cockroaches
269:opisthosoma
263:Description
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1174:Categories
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782:2009-09-26
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512:References
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412:Portsmouth
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146:Species:
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58:Eukaryota
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