The Long-jawed orb weavers or Long jawed spiders constitute the Family Tetragnathidae of the Order Araneae. These are elongated spiders with long legs and chelicerae.
The spiders are orb web weavers, weaving small orb webs with an open hub and few, wide-set radii and spirals. The webs have no signal line and no retreat. Some species are often found in long vegetation near water.
Spiders have eight walking legs, anterior appendages bearing fangs and poison glands, and specialized reproductive organs on the second appendages of the male; they commonly make extensive use of silk that they spin.
Spider silk is a fibrous protein that is secreted as a fluid and forms a polymer, on being stretched, that is much stronger than steel and further resists breakage by its elasticity.
Jumping spiders may lurk in ambush for their prey, and a number of them are well camouflaged on flowers by color or body structure or both.
Spiders, unique among all organisms in their modes of silk production and usage and of reproduction, are common (if often inconspicuous) predatory arthropods in all terrestrial and many aquatic ecosystems throughout Canada.
Bennett, R.G. The spidergenus Cybaeota (Araneae, Agelenidae).
The striped lynx spider, Oxyopes salticus (Araneae, Oxyopidae), in agroecosystems.
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