Name: Agent 355 Nickname: Spy-der Species: Spider/European Cross Spider/orb-weaver spider/Garden spider Home: ceiling of my living room Hobbies: admiring from afar. Totally not a stalker. Occasionally lowers down like a spy from a heist movie just to say good day to just about anyone sitting comfortably on the sofa below. Will come down from ceiling to also watch the morning forecast. Personality: Introverted, clever, amiable, emotionally sensitive, secretly gregarious, spontaneous. Gender: likely male
Facts about the European Cross Spider: This family of spider is a very large one and includes over 2800 species in over 160 genera worldwide, making it the third largest family of spiders known behind the jumping spider family (Salticidae) and the second largest family of spiders called Linyphiidae commonly known as Sheet Weavers because of the shape of their webs. This species of spider has no known record of being venomous or dangerous to humans and pets in anyway. There is no need to fear them since they will literally shake in fear at the mere sight of a large animal, then drop down, but will not harm you. They usually build webs all around the place so are well accustomed to human interaction. I find that these webs are those webs that catch your face when hiking and make you freak out briefly. However we should be grateful that these little guys rid the area of mosquitos and flies. They rebuild their webs everyday and spend most of their time on the web's hub monitoring vibrations in the silk. Then when they feel a certain vibration they will grab the prey very quickly and wrap it in silk thread before consuming it. Sometimes there will be an individual spider who is more reclusive and will connect herself to the web through a bundle of signal threads that run from the hub to her hideout in a rolled up leaf or somewhere else cozy (Agent 355 has a little light he crawls into) There has been two European cross spiders sent into space named “Anita” and “Arabella” to study the effects of zero gravity on web structure. Unfortunately these spiders only live up to a year so I will now spend my time with my spider mate.
