Forest Tégénaire

The forest tégénaire ( Tegenaria silvestris ) is a spider Tégénaire very beautiful but little known.

Proportions

The forest tégénaire is a Tégénaire of intermediate size. Its size turns around 10 mm and 50 mm legs included/understood.

Predatory and preys

The forest tégénaire with few predatory natural; only the Tégénaire giantess ( Tegenaria gigantea ) ose to attack her. She nourishes of all Arthropode smaller than she, but does not dare to attack an animal of at least its size.

Distribution and habitat

The forest tégénaire does not live in the houses contrary with some of his/her cousins. She lives rather in the forests and often makes her fabric in the bark of the trees, the bushes and under the rocks. One finds it in Western Europe.

Manners

The forest tégénaire is solitary and night. She lives on fabrics in the shapes of funnels which she remakes each night. Sometimes it sometimes happens to him to leave its fabric to drive out if she is famished, but in general she drives out the preys which are on its fabric, thus making it leave her fabric to bite it then to carry it to her hiding-place to inject enzymes to him (which are used to soften the prey, because the spiders cannot chew) and devour it.

The forest tégénaire and the human one

Close species

More the close relatives of the forest tégénaire are the other tégénaires such as the giant tégénaire and the tégénaire of ripe the ( Tegenaria parietina ); two more imposing species, the tégénaire of the fields ( Tegenaria agrestis ); other species, like the tégénaire of countryside ( Tegenaria campestris ), live apart from the houses.

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