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- This page contains pictures and information about Brown House Spiders that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 10mm
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- Brown House Spiders are brown to dark brown in colour with patterns on
abdomen. They looked very similar to the Back
House Spiders especially when they were young. It is not possible to distinguish
them from photos. We may have mix them up in this two web pages.
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- Brown House Spiders are common in Brisbane bushes. They build tangled web
amount green leaves, dry plants, stems and tree trunks.
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- The Brown House Spiders looked very similar to the Black
House Spiders. We identified those found in the bushes with lighter brown
colour as Brown House Spider, those found near houses with darker brown
colour as Black House Spiders.
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- The spider is usually active at night, hides inside retreat during the
day. The above first picture shows a small Black House Spider catches a Long Legged
Fly.
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- Above pictures show the spider captured an unknown green fly.
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- Above pictures show the Brown House Spider was building tangled web outside
the retreat. Every evening the
spider either repair the web or extend it. The prey, usually small
insects, that lands on the web are caught and consumed in the retreat.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 1995, p26.
- 2. Badumna
longingua - The Find-a-spider Guide for the Spiders of
Southern Queensland, Dr Ron Atkinson, 2008.
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