#family cheiracanthiidae

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Yellow sac spider

The yellow sac spiders (Cheiracanthium) are in the family Cheiracanthiidae and they probably account for more human bites that any other type of spider. These arachnids are distributed all over the globe, from America to Northern Europe, South Africa to India, and even Australia and Japan. They’re nocturnal predators and during the day they hide in small white web cocoons.

It is the only spider in Europe whose bite can penetrate human skin.

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[ecologydog]

Trying to undo my fear of spiders by taking pictures of them and was very fond of this ceiling spider/yellow sac spider (Cheiracanthum inclusum) sheltering in the table flowers. Very common to find inside and has an unfounded reputation of incessantly biting humans and being incredibly dangerous (causing necrosis around the bite area) when in reality it doesn’t tend to bite humans anyways, and if it does the symptoms are mild and short lived. Being nocturnal, it usually spends the day in a silk sac before leaving, usually a ceiling corner or other infrequently disturbed spot, to hunt other creatures.

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[dykegeology]

This is wrong in every single way except for 'distributed worldwide' and 'order araneae'. "long legged sac spiders" is occasionally used for miturgidae but usually means Cheiracanthiidae, they're really diverse in arid and semiarid regions, corinnidae is a family not a superfamily, and miturgidae spiders are not in the superfamily including corinnidae spiders, which is corinniodea. there are no ants, bees or wasps in the family corinnidae, as they are in a different order.

Miturgidae spiders have a pretty decent amount of information about them online by arthropod standards so this is probably better than you'd get for most similar stuff. It is really not a good idea to use this for your biology assignments lol.

It's really astonishing how much chatgpt is just bad at providing information. Apparently some people at uni were using it for assignments and it's obvious so I went to check it out to see what the 'chatgpt phrasing' sounded like just in case I cooincidentally also wrote like that for some reason and it's just bad 💀 WHO is using this for assignments you are not going to get good marks