Badumna insignis
1 Black House Spider at Hughes, ACT
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| Badumna insignis | KimPullen | 9 Jun 2020 | |
| Badumna insignis | JonSteinbeck | 9 May 2020 |
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I found this Black House eating a European Honey Bee. The last photograph was taken about three hours after the first four. At first I thought the spider was trying to pull the bee into the crack at the top of the aircon unit, but the bee was too large. The spider would pull the bee up but the bee never seemed to go too far into the crack. The spider would occasionally withdraw all the way into its crack but would return to have another go. In the last photograph you may be able to notice that the spider has removed the bee’s head and is directly feeding on the innards of the thorax.
2 comments
9 Jun 2020
Looks like a young female. Mature females are fully the size of a honeybee, or larger.
11 Jun 2020
Hi Kim, Many thanks for that information, I would not have known otherwise. I haven't seen her for a while so I hope she is still around.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.098052-35.333242
- Altitude 627.8m
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 Apr 2020 11:24 AM Recorded on
- JonSteinbeck Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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Species information
- Badumna insignis Scientific name
- Black House Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1315.5m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Amaurobius robustus Ixeuticus robustus
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