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Silver Stretch Spider

Tetragnatha montana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) dekate, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 217, February 160, March 251, April 395, May 569, June 621, July 664, August 571, September 419, October 313, November 171, December 134.
United States4,485
Alaska4,485
France39
Germany33
United Kingdom21
Russia21
England19
Niedersachsen14
Ukraine12
Greece11

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyLong-jawed Orbweavers · Tetragnathidae
GenusStretch Spiders · Tetragnatha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Silver Stretch Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.