Trapdoor Spider

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Trapdoor Spider

• Looks Like
• Where Lives
• Web
• Babies
• Enemies

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Looks Like

• Trapdoor spiders are an inch or more long in the
  body with 8 short legs.The hairs on the body and
  legs are short.Trapdoor spiders are usually some
  shade of brown.They are not pretty.Their jaws are
  large.

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Where Lives

• Trapdoor spiders live in tropical countries. Some
  live in North America and Europe.

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Web

• Trapdoor spiders dig a shaft in the ground to
  live in. They make a trapdoor to get in and out
  of the shaft. That is why they are called
  trapdoor spiders. The trapdoor is made of silk.
  The spider digs a tunnel and lines it with silk
  to catch insects.The tunnel is one foot long.The
  spider gets food without ever coming out of the
  shaft.When an insect comes near , the trapdoor
  spider puts its fang in the insect and wraps it
  in silk.

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Babies

• Trapdoor spiders lay 100 to 150 eggs. They hatch
  in August and September. The females lay their
  eggs in a silken cocoon on the wall of the shaft.

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Enemies

• The trapdoor spiders worst enemies are people
  and wasps.

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Something Interesting

• The trapdoor spider uses one of its eight legs
  to open and close the trapdoor.

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