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Stylidium uliginosum Swartz ex Willdenow
Die Arachniden (Plate CCXLVIII) (8554071163)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labillardiere) Druce
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, a female Golden-Silk Spider repairs its web. The female can be identified by its brownish-green abdomen with a white spotted irregular pattern. The golden-silk spider repairs the webbing each day, replacing half but never the whole web at one time. Its web may measure two to three feet across. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, a 92,000-acre refuge that is a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds, as well as a variety of insects KSC-99pp1187
Colobanthus apetalus (Labillardiere) Druce
Colobanthus apetalus (Labillardiere) Druce
Stylidium uliginosum Swartz ex Willdenow
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Summary
Commonly referred to in America as daddy long-leg spiders, these animals aren't actually spiders! They do belong to the class Arachnida but these little guys have only one main body section while spiders have two. They also lack the ability to produce silk which means they don't make webs, either. Nicknamed 'harvestmen', these little omnivores will eat anything from plants, small insects, fungi, feces to dead animal matter. The commonly held belief that they are highly venomous but cannot bite humans is FALSE. These little nonvenomous creatures pose no threat to humans at all. They don't even have venom glands. They do, however, have the ability to produce an odor that deters predators. Also, similar to tail autonomy in some reptiles, these little guys are able to drop a twitching leg or two in an attempt to distract a predator.