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Nursery web spiders are spiders of the family Pisauridae. They resemble wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), but they carry their egg sacs by means of their jaws and pedipalps (instead of attaching them to their spinnerets). When the eggs are about to hatch, a mother spider will build a nursery "tent", put her egg sac inside and mount guard outside. The name nursery web spider is especially given to the European species Pisaura mirabilis, but the family...

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More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Fauna Series of NZ 64: Pisauridae
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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