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I dis not know what this animal was called when this was filmed, my expertise in such matters not extending to arachnids - however someone has told me that it is a Cross Spider so here is some information on it.
Incidentally spiders are not insects but arachnids - a totally different class of animal.
The Cross Spider or Garden Spider is a very common and well-known orb-weaver spider in Western and Central Europe. Here in Poland many can be found in the forests in the north of the country. Individual spiders can range from light yellow, to orange-brown or dark grey, but all European garden spiders have mottled markings across the back with five or more large white dots forming a cross. Usually, the cross-like markings are quite visible. The mother puts eggs in a small coccon, which looks more like a little web.
Adult females range in length from 6.5 to 20 millimeters, and the males are 5.5 to 13 millimeters long.
The cross spider is common in a wide range of habitats, including gardens, meadows, woodland clearings and hedgerows. It is commonly encountered next to buildings with exterior lighting. The spiders can be found in lighted stairwells of structures in rural areas.
Diet: flying insects, such as, flies and mosquitoes.
The webs are built by the large females. At the tip of the abdomen there are three pairs of spinnerets, which secrete silk used to create the web. They usually face head down on the web, waiting for prey to fly by and get entangled in the sticky web. The prey is quickly captured by the female and wrapped with silk prior to being eaten.
Orb Spiders are said to eat their webs each night along with many of the small insects stuck to it. They have been observed eating the web within a couple of minutes. A new web is then spun in the morning.
The adults are found from late summer through autumn. In late September, the females leave their webs and seek out protected locations to deposit between 300 to 900 eggs. The eggs are enclosed within a cocoon of yellow, silken threads, shaped in a hemisphere. Typical egg deposition sites include under the bark of dead trees and in cracks and crevices.
The nickname "Cross Spider" comes from the white cross on the back of the abdomen.
The bite is slightly unpleasant and harmless to humans.
Spiral webs are built near gardens and lighted structures that attract flying insects.
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That's an ant
PaXx 1 year ago
@Beata2612 Chyba nie jest tak żle!
alanheath3 1 year ago
Fu! Bałam się tego mimo że to tylko filmik!
Beata2612 1 year ago
it's krzyzak spider
andrewcobra2000 1 year ago