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- Spiders of the Leningrad Region
Spiders of the Leningrad region are represented by 86 genera, 130 species. Meet everywhere. They live in meadows, fields, forests, forest edges, in city parks, abandoned buildings, residential buildings, apartments. All of them are predators, possess poisonous glands. They feed on insects, their larvae, and small relatives. The bite of some of them is a mortal danger to humans.
Photos and family names
In the fauna of the Leningrad region, several families of spiders are distinguished:
- ARANEIDAE.
- TETRAGNATIDAE.
- SALTICIDAE.
- LYCOSIDAE.
- ANYPHAENIDAE.
- TERIDIIDAE.
- PHILODROMIDAE.
- THOMISIDAE
- GNAPHOSIDAE
- LINYPHIDAE
- PISAURIDAE
- CLUBIONIDAE
- ZORIDAE
- SPARASSIDAE
- MIMETIDAE
- PHOLCIDAE
- DICTYNIDAE
- MITURGIDAE
- LIOCRANIDAE
- OXYOPIDAE
Each family includes many species of arachnids. They differ in size, lifestyle, color, degree of toxicity to humans.
Poisonous spiders in the Leningrad region
Dangerous arthropods live in the wild, choose arid zones. They are active at night. In search of food, they often explore the nearby territories, crawl into the territory of human lands, houses, apartments. Hiding in things that have been in nature, shoes. Spider bite occurs with random pressure on a predator when a person does not see it.
Karakurt
Meeting with this spider can end tragically. Karakurt - the owner of toxic glands with a strong toxic substance of neuroparalytic effect. Initially, a local allergic reaction occurs - edema, redness, pain, swelling. After 15 minutes, weakness, dizziness, arrhythmia, difficulty breathing, muscle cramps appear. If qualified medical care is not provided, the person dies.
Important!
A spider bite is especially dangerous for children, people with weakened or pathologically weak immunity.
The description of the appearance of the female, the male is almost similar, the latter are smaller. The spider is medium sized. Long black limbs, well developed chelicerae, abdomen black with red spots - 13 pieces. The color of sexually mature individuals is uniform; spots are smoothed out during molting.
Tarantula
Dangerous spiders do not attack people, they bite when they threaten their own lives. Belong to the family wolf spiderslead a nocturnal lifestyle. They prefer active hunting, do not build hunting nets. They are found in arid places, build deep burrows. They hunt insects, small relatives.
Bite tarantula poisonous to mammals, in humans it causes a strong allergic reaction, but does not lead to death. There is weakness, dizziness, abdominal pain, cramps, heart palpitations. The condition normalizes within a few days. Apply antihistamines local, systemic effects.
On a note!
In the Leningrad region is often found south russian tarantula. Together with the leg span, the female’s dimensions reach 30 mm. Lives in burrows underground, the entrance is protected by a web. Color beige, gray, brown. Unlike other wolf spiders, it has a dark cap.
Crosses
Common crosses everywhere. They live in forests, fields, gardens, are found in gardens, in the yard, non-residential premises. Refer to spiders. Openwork fishing nets weave at night, in the afternoon they sit in the center of their creation, waiting for the victim, or hide in a secluded place, holding out a signal thread.
On a note!
The spider in St. Petersburg brings significant benefits, destroying a large number of pests of the forest, field, garden, garden. For a person does not pose a danger, prefers to quickly hide. It may turn out to be in things that have been in nature, it inflicts a bite when a person begins to disassemble bags.
The poison of the cross is deadly for insects; in animals, a spider bite causes a local allergic reaction. Swelling, swelling, redness appears. People with an increased tendency to allergies have weakness, nausea. The condition normalizes during the day, the skin recovers in a week.
You can distinguish these types of spiders from others by their characteristic color. On the upper part of the abdomen is a pattern in the form of a cross. Body color is beige, gray, brown, ashen. The size of the female reaches 15 mm.
Anifena striking
The spider is medium sized. The body is densely covered with hairs, the color is reddish-brown with dark patterns. In the center of the abdomen there are 4 dark spots. Long limbs. The female size reaches 1 cm, the males are always smaller, the color is darker. Lead a nocturnal lifestyle.
Spiders rarely bite, only in case of a threat to their own life. A local allergic reaction appears at the site of the bite. Traces disappear within a week without special treatment.
All spiders of the Leningrad region do not differ in aggressive disposition; they do not pose a danger to humans if you keep a distance from them.
