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Spitting Spiders in South Austin, Texas

Meg has been collecting some spitting spiders (in this case, Scytodes thoracica), for me for some time now. Spitting spiders are easy to care for. A small fly for food, once a week or so, is all they need in the way of food and drink. They are not fussy about accommodations, as long as their habitat is dry and free of predators — such as triangulate house spiders and, yes, other spitters, which are not at all reluctant about eating one another. [...]

A Spitting spider from North Austin, Texas

A total of five genera and 169 species of spitting spiders, all in the Scytodidae family, are presently recognized. Of these, one genus (Scytodes) and 7 species are known to be found in North America. One species, Scytodes thoracica, is relatively common… [...]