Net Casting Spider

Common Name and Latin Name
The Common Name and Latin Name are as follows:
Common Name (s): Net Casting Spider
Latin Name: Deinopidae

Net Casting Spider identification - what does it look like?
The Net casting spider has very long slender legs, they have eight eyes with two that are enlarged and face forwards. Females can be a light brown with two low humps midway along her sides with small orange patches underneath. Male Net casting spiders are shorter and thinner than females and have more spindly like legs, their body colour is more of a dark grey with light grey longitudinal stripes with small white horns on the head over the eyes.

What do the Net Casting Spider eat? What is its prey?
The Net casting spider will catch the likes of:

• Cockroaches

• Ants
• Spiders
• Moths
• Male trapdoor spiders
• Wood crickets

Is the Net Casting Spider poisonous?
All types (except Uloboridae) are poisonous! The Net casting spider is poisonous, but is harmless to humans.

How big is the Net Casting Spider?
A female Net Casting Spider can grow as big as 25mm were the male will reach between 10mm and 15mm.

Where does the Net Casting Spider live, what is its habitat?
The net casting spider can be found world wide such as, South Africa, tropical and subtropical areas. 

Does the Net Casting Spider have good eyesight?
Generally speaking the Net Casting Spider has god eyesight as it looks out for its passing prey to catch.

Facts and Information about the Net Casting Spider
Did you know the following facts about the arachnid commonly known as the Net Casting Spider?

• Fact One - At night they build a rectangular shaped, post stamp sized net web

• Fact Two - They wait in low vegetation were insects pass by
• Fact Three - The Net spider will hang head down from a trapeze of silk while holding the net in its front pair of legs
• Fact Four - The Net casting spider will site and wait for its prey to come to it
• Fact Five - When an insect passes by, the Net casting spider will stretch the net to 2 or 3 times its size, lunge down and catch its prey.
• Fact Six - When the prey is court, the spider will quickly bite and rape the prey
• Fact Seven - while eating its prey, the Net casting spider may make another net

Classification of the Net Casting Spider
Species of spiders are classified according to shared physical characteristics. Spider taxonomy is the science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms in a hierarchical system. This method of classification helps when a description of 40,000 spiders is required! The organization of living things have seven major categories: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. The classification of the Net Casting Spider is as follows:

Kingdom: Animalia
(Kingdom relates to the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia) :

Phylum: Arthropoda
(Phyla are groups of classes. A series of animals or plants genetically connected with shared characteristics. The second biggest grouping in taxonomy. Arthropoda are jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids, crustaceans, insects etc

Class: Arachnida
A Class is a taxonomic group containing one or more orders. Arachnid  consist of any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders and scorpions, of the class Arachnida

Order: Araneae
A taxonomic order, within the class Arachnida (spiders)

Subclass:
The Subclass is nother taxonomic category below a class and above an order which helps in the classification process

Family: Deinopidae
Another taxonomic category below an order and above a genus which helps in the classification process.

Genus: Deinopis
Another taxonomic category below a family and above the level of species which helps in the classification process.

Species: subrufa
Specis is a taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.

Spider Exterminators - Pest Control 
Generally speaking, people do not like spiders especially Net Casting Spiders and most of all, do not want them in their homes! There are many forms of pest control and ways to exterminate spiders such as Net Casting Spiders. There are spider exterminators, services, spider zappers, spider traps, spider repeller, spider catchers, spider traps for the removal and extermination process. Advice is available on subjects such as pest controls, pest prevention, spider catchers, spider exterminators and how to kill spiders like Net Casting Spiders. Some people would like to eliminate spiders from there homes completely, this can be very difficult as an open window on a summers day will allow spiders in, even opening your front door when entering and leaving will allow pesky spiders in. It is very easy to get rid of Net Casting Spiders by catching them yourself. Its best not to kill spiders as they are very important in controlling the level of other insects that are pests.