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- Submitted: Dec 30, 2017
- Photographed: Dec 30, 2017
- Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
- Location: Delaware, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)
Picture ID 3515
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- Submitted Sep 26, 2023
- Photographed Sep 26, 2023
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- Submitted Nov 22, 2023
- Photographed Nov 21, 2023
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- Submitted Oct 11, 2023
- Photographed Oct 11, 2023
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Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 Your visitor is a Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira).
What a cute name for a spider! Thanks for the quick response. 🙂
Not sure if you will get this but I’m going to give it shot. I fell in love with this little guy and kept him as a pet (Barry). I bought a home for him and fed him crickets. I took him in to my third grade class and they loved him. We even wrote a class book about spiders and dedicated it to him. Unfortunately, this morning when I went in to school, Barry was dead. I am heartbroken. I was wondering if you knew the average life span of this type of spider. I want to know if… Read more »
Hi Spidergirl, Just my input, I might suggest your little friend is an adult female. I kept a couple in Florida from juvenile and seems they may live 2 years in captivity. Males, a spring spiderling may live a full season and pass with the onset of winter Feeding pet spiders a concern with wild caught prey is possible pesticide contamination. A fellow arachnophile keeping a brown widow and myself with a southern house spider had premature fatality and concluded some of the Sterilyte trays from China contain PFOAs that seem to be toxic to spiders, we each switched to… Read more »
I looked through several scientific papers on the species and they didn’t specify the life span but gave a time frame of when adult spiders were collected (Mar.-Nov.). It seems that after maturity they last less than a year … how long it takes for them to mature can be affected by the climate. I found this regarding a similar genus of Nursery Web Spider native to Europe (Pisaura mirabilis). Pisaurina mira may be different of course, but perhaps it’s similar. “Temperature can influence the development and number of stages, with colder temperatures slowing down the process. Under good conditions,… Read more »