We share our house with a few spiders. This morning, one with a small body and long spindly legs trapped another squatter, darker spider in its web. How can this happen? Since spiders are adept at walking along strands of silk, why should one get trapped in another’s web?
• This predatory spider is most probably of the species that was first described by entomologist and is also known as the cellar or skull spider.
It cannot survive a cold winter outdoors in the UK, but it has become quite common in heated houses there.…
