Main lifestyles for spiders

There are 3 main types of lifestyle:

• those that live in webs:
  • are aerial dwellers and often visible;
  • use sticky silk to capture prey;
  • their most common web type is cartwheel-shaped, although sheetwebs also common.
• those living in tunnels:
  • are concealed on the ground or in trees;
  • wait for food to drop by;
  • use trigger threads.
• those that are hunters:
  • are usually nocturnal, hiding by day;
  • sometimes hunt and stalk prey at night;
  • some daytime species sit and wait then pounce, for example, crab spiders.

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