Common Spiders
There are about 1400 known species of spiders in Canada including the House Spider, Sac spider, Hobo Spider, Wolf spider, two species of tarantulas and two species of black widows; so spider identification can be difficult. The common household spider in Ontario is the House Spider, which is responsible for most cobwebs found in buildings.
The female House Spider is larger than the male, about 10mm long, gray to brown with a rounded, globular abdomen mottled with several dark stripes on the upper side. House spiders spin their webs in dark corners of moist rooms and outdoors. They hang upside down in the center of an irregular cobweb. Sticky threads on the outside of the web entangle many insects, especially flies, which are bitten and sucked dry. Females are fertilized several times during a lifetime and lay up to ten egg sacs, each containing 200 or more eggs. Young hatch in about eight days, staying within the sac until after the first molt. Spiderlings take several months to mature.
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