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Folding-door Spider

Antrodiaetus pacificus

Photo by Steve Lenz
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A large thick bodied spider that protects the opening of its home with a trap door.

Habitat:

My yard. Used to be a shrub-steppe area.

Notes:

I was cleaning my porch and found this guy in a flower pot.

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Comments (2)

He's a little bigger than a quarter. I checked and they aren't toxic, at least toxic enough to be a problem. But, they have very long fangs so they can give a pretty good bite. I don't think they are very aggressive. I now have it in a jar with sand hoping it digs a tunnel and makes a trapdoor.
this is a crazy dream-haunting spider! how big was this guy?

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