White-tailed Spider
Lampona spp
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These spiders have suffered from bad press during recent decades, with widespread claims that their bites are responsible for necrotic legions but their bite actually only cause “minor effects in most cases” and are “very unlikely to cause necrotic ulcers”. These spiders don’t spin silk to catch prey but are instead hunters of other spiders, finding and attacking them in their own webs. During the day will shelter outside under leaf litter, bark or rocks.
Fun fact: White-tailed spiders have special tufts of hair called scopulae at the ends of their legs, which allows then to walk on smooth, upright surfaces and across ceilings and windowpanes
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