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chapelspider

i think this is a female Bathyphantes approximatus which i captured at work. The spider hangs upside down on its web and probably eat silverfish or bristletails that come within its grasp. She also seemed to be a nocturnal hunter and fleed from the light, which made capture hard.

 

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Uploaded on November 29, 2007
Taken on November 28, 2007