How long do Pholcus Phalangioides live?

It takes about one year for these spiders to mature after they are born, and their life span is up to two years post-maturity.

Do Pholcus Phalangioides bite humans?

Not a medically important spider, cellar spiders aren’t known to bite people. However, this has not detoured the existence of an urban myth indicating that cellar spider venom is among the most deadly in the world, but the length of the spider’s fangs are too short to deliver the venom during a bite.

Should I kill cellar spiders?

Both build webs where they lie in wait for prey to get caught. Cellar spiders sometimes leave their webs to hunt other spiders on their turf, mimicking prey to catch their cousins for dinner. So killing a spider doesn’t just cost the arachnid its life, it may take an important predator out of your home.

How long does a garden spider live for?

Most UK spiders live for around a year, but the females of some species can live for up to two or three years, especially if they live indoors away from predators.

How long does a Pholcus phalangioides Spider live?

Pholcus phalangioides can live up to about three years. ( Stüber, 1999) When P. phalangioides is not mating, it is a solitary creature that work on catching food in its web. ( Uhl, November 1998) Male spiders find a female spiders by tracking the pheromones she leaves.

Where does Pholcus phalangioides live in the world?

Pholcus phalangioides is probably native to the subtropical areas of the Old World © Giuseppe Mazza. The Skull spider or Cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides Fuesslin, 1775) is an arachnid belonging to the order Araneae, family Pholcidae.

What kind of prey does Pholcus phalangioides eat?

Pholcus phalangioides seems to prefer other spiders and small insects as prey. Also, males and females have both been known to engage in cannibalism. Females have been seen invading another spider’s web, eating that spider, and using the foreign web to catch new prey for themselves. These spiders kill and digest their prey using venom.

Who was the first person to discover Pholcus phalangioides?

Pholcus phalangioides was first described in 1775 by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli. A member of the genus Pholcus in the family Pholcidae, P. phalangioides shares ancestry with roughly 1,340 similar cellar-spiders such as the granddaddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, and vibrating spider.