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True Spiders: Pholcus phalangioides

Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides

The cellar spider you have more then likely come across in your houses or sheds, very easy to identify due to their long slender legs. If they feel threatened they will often swing their body around while attached to their web manically that they become very hard to see which could be a form of camouflage.

Taxonomic Classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Arachnida
  • Order: Araneae
  • Family: Pholcidae
  • Sub Family:
  • Genus: Pholcus
  • Species: phalangioides

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Care Sheet

Diet: Flies, fruit flies and small moths
Housing: 15cm height terrarium
Substrate: Not needed but coir helps keep a bit of humidity
Temperature: 16°c to 28°c
Humidity:light misting twice a week
Additional notes:
One of the easiest spiders to look after, they will make their web in a variety of places and easily feed on small flies.

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