Spitting Spider

Facts and Information about the Spitting Spider
Did you know the following facts about the arachnid commonly known as the Spitting Spider?  Description and key features for spider Identification. The easy way to identify spiders!

Common Name and Latin Name
The Common Name and Latin Name are as follows:
Common Name (s): Spitting Spider
Latin Name: Scytodes thoracica

Spitting Spider identification - what does it look like?
The Spitting Spider Has rather long gangly legs that are a yellowish colour with brown bands, their body is more of a light brown colour with a dark brown pattern on both the abdomen and cephalothorax. Both the abdomen and cephalothorax are the same shape with the cephalothorax being a little bit bigger. 

What do Spitting Spiders eat? What is its prey?
The Spitting Spider will catch prey such as:

• Fish

• Moths
• Flies
• Other insects larger than its self

Is the Spitting Spider poisonous?
All types (except Uloboridae) are poisonous! However the Spitting Spider is not dangerous to humans as its fangs are to small to pierce skin.

Where does the Spitting Spider live, what is its habitat?
The Spitting Spider can be found in:

• The Spitting Spider can be found world wide

• They can be found in places such as:

  • Under bark

  • Under leaf litter

  • Occasionally in dark places around the home

Does the Spitting Spider have good eyesight?
Generally speaking the Spitting Spider has poor eyesight and is an active hunter rather than sitting on a web. This can be difficult with poor eyesight so the Spitting Spider wonders around with its front legs held up, the legs are covered with tiny sensory hairs.

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

• Fact One - The Spitting Spider is a very slow moving spider.

• Fact Two - Spitting Spiders have silk glands connected to their fangs enabling them to spit through larger hole through their fangs.
• Fact Three - Spitting Spiders can spit web a maximum of 60mm away.
• Fact Four - The Spitting Spider will spit over 10 times the length of its own body.
• Fact Five - They can spit faster than a bullet covering its prey in 1/600th of a second.
• Fact Six - Spitting Spider can be unsocial and will spit at each other till the other is immobilised.
• Fact Seven - When spitting, they can be seen moving from side to side, this is to cover the prey with its spit.

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

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

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

Spider Exterminators - Pest Control 
Generally speaking, people do not like spiders especially Spitting 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 Spitting 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 Spitting 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 Spitting 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.