Tegenaria campestris

The tégénaire of countryside ( Tegenaria campestris ) is a Araignée. It has long legs, is fast and meets in the dark places.

Proportions

The tégénaire of countryside is a tégénaire of intermediate size. The large females reach 12 mm, for 50 mm legs included/understood.

Predatory and preys

The tégénaire of countryside to few predatory natural; only the giant tégénaire ( Tegenaria gigantea ) and the tégénaire of black ( Tegenaria atrica ) dare to attack it. It nourishes of all Arthropode smaller than it, but does not dare to attack an animal of at least its size.

Distribution and habitat

The tégénaire of countryside lives in the plains (in tall grasses, the bark of the trees,…). One finds it in Western Europe.

Manners

The tégénaire of countryside 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 Enzyme S to him (which are used to soften the prey, because the spiders cannot chew) and devour it. When a male seeks to couple itself, it touches the fabric of the female using one of its legs by making a regular rate/rhythm; thus indicating to the female that it is not a prey. If the female leaves, it escapes, but if it does not leave, it returns and sperm using its pédipales injects to him (kinds of small legs with before). After the coupling, there are 3 possibilities:
  • the female attacks the male (generally);
  • the male leaves the fabric without being made attack (enough rare);
  • the female accepts the male and they live in couple (extremely rare).
After a few days of gestation, the female lays hundreds of eggs which it will protect. During the blossoming, the small ones eat their mother. A female can live 5 years.

The tégénaire of countryside and the human one

Close species

More the close relatives of the tégénaire of countryside are the other tégénaires such as the giant tégénaire, the tégénaire of ripe the ( Tegenaria parietina ), the tégénaire of the fields ( Tegenaria agrestis ), the black Tégénaire and other species still…

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