If she is uninterested, the female will display aggressive behavior and try and chase the male our of her home. The male transfers sperm to the female several times throughout copulation. Following copulation, the male remains in the nest for a few minutes, leaving while the female begins to build an egg sac, a process that can take several hours.
Bristowe, ; Schutz and Taborsky, The mating season starts in mid to late spring. Following copulation, the female produces a dense white egg sac holding eggs, which completely fills the upper half of the nest.
Although the number of viable offspring per egg sac decreases per laying event, water spiders are able to produce six egg sacs from one copulation event throughout a year. However, females that engage in more than one copulation event tend to be more reproductively successful by avoiding a sperm deficit. After she produces her egg sac the female also produces a thick partition separating the eggs from the lower half of the nest, where she continues to live.
The female is left to guard the brood until they hatch, which in captivity was found to take three to four weeks. During this time, the female seldom leaves the bell and narrows the entrance by drawing together the edges.
After egg-laying the female water spider guards her brood until they leave her nest. Offspring leave their mother's nest between two and four weeks after hatching to build their own nests.
Bristowe, Water spiders have been found to live in captivity for two years. Argyroneta aquatica is the only known spider to live out its entire life underwater. This diving bell is used for digestion of prey, molting, deposition of sperm and eggs, copulation, and as a brooding chamber.
The diving bell is usually attached to water plants and has been said to resemble a short, wide-based thimble in structure. In construction of the diving bell, first a platform of silk is constructed between water plants. The spider then swims to the surface, sticks its abdomen out of the water and holds its hind legs backward around the abdomen, thus enlarging the volume of air that can be captured and transported by the air-trapping hairs. Air bubble in tow, the water spider dives as best it can to the nest it is constructing, swimming down and climbing along water plants.
Upon reaching the nest, the spider releases the air bubble beneath the diving bell and strengthens and extends the sides of the structure. Bristowe, ; De Bakker, et al. It has been found that the diving bell is utilized not just as a water-free space, but as an oxygen reservoir or external lung.
Schutz, et al. Females spend most of their time inside the diving bell, acting as ambush predators. A female sit in her nest with her front legs protruding into the water underneath, waiting for the tell-tale vibrations of silk threads to pounce on her prey, envelop it in her legs, and draw it into her open chelicerae.
Digestion needs to occur inside the diving bell because of the external nature of the interchange of digested and half-digested fluids. If she leaves the bell to hunt, the female water spider does this at night. Males are far more mobile and can be found outside of the diving bell hunting and looking for mates during both the day and night. In this way, males are more active hunters.
Water spiders are typically found in temperate locations, and they hibernate during the cold of winter. They are found to descend deeper in the water column and build new, sturdier diving bells during this time.
These bells are eventually sealed up completely, providing the hibernating spider with oxygen from November to February. Along with these wintering structures, males of the species have been found to line empty snail shells with silk, fill them with air, and then seal themselves up inside the shell for the winter. Description provided by Arkive. This species is the only spider in the world that spends its entire life under water 3. It has a number of adaptations for this aquatic life-style.
The abdomen and legs are densely covered in short hairs that trap air when the spider is submerged 2. Although the spider is velvet-grey out of the water, when it is in the water the air trapped around its body gives it a silvery appearance, which has been likened to quick-silver mercury 1. This is one of the very few spiders in which the males are larger than the females 4. Although this species has been placed in a separate family, the Argyronetidae, recent scientific studies examining fossil spiders suggest that it should be placed in the family Cybaeidae 5.
Habitat provided by Arkive. Inhabits ponds, slow-moving streams, ditches, and shallow lakes where there is plenty of aquatic vegetation 2. Range provided by Arkive. The water spider is found throughout Britain 2. It occurs throughout northern and central Europe, in Siberia and northern Asia 6. Status provided by Arkive. Threats provided by Arkive.
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Uppsala, Sweden: Royal Society of Upsala. Retrieved January 10, Journal of Arachnology. S2CID Retrieved 7 August Fluid Mech. Water spiders breathe out of the water by drawing air into special breathing tubes called spiracles in their bodies. In the water, air is trapped in the hairs surrounding their spiracles. Water spiders can stay under the water for about one hour. These spiders can walk on water. The hairs on the tips of their legs let them tread on the water without breaking the surface tension.
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Though most known spiders are almost exclusively carnivorous, a few species, primarily of jumping spiders, supplement their diet with plant matter such as sap, nectar, and pollen.
Water spider, Argyroneta aquatica , also known as diving bell spider, species of spider that is known for its underwater silk web, which resembles a kind of flexible diving bell. The water spider is the only species of spider known to spend its entire life underwater.
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