Net Casting Spider
One of our constant garden ‘friends’, the Net Casting Spider
has made itself at home around the eaves and even the footings of our home…
this, despite regular clearing of webs.
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| Male Net Casting Spider... Deinopis species |
It is called a Net Casting Spider because of a curious and
unique habit… they create a small web, held between their four front legs which
can be opened to ‘net’ passing insect prey. The unwitting prey may be passing
by foot or even on the wing! Being a nocturnal animal, you are most likely to
encounter a Net Casting Spider ‘at work’ towards the evening hours. Their
regular diet consists of other insects, namely ants, beetles, crickets and
other spiders.
Should you be unable to observe this little creature around
your home, it regularly leaves behind another tell-tale sign of its presence,
especially during the summer months – a tiny, suspended globe of eggs, cream in
colour flecked with brown.
According to the Queensland
Museum, one severe human reaction to a bite from a Net Casting Spider has
been recorded.
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| This female Net Casting Spider sits with its globe of eggs, legs paired. |
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