Scary cave spiders living in a dark cellar (M. menardi) [Inferion7]

List of animals in this video:

Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804)
Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)
Nesticus cellulanus (Clerck, 1757)

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Family
Tetragnathidae

Genus
Meta

Meta menardi

Basic info:
Body length size - female 14-17 mm, male 11-12 mm, definitely not a small species. Cotton cocoon can be white or grey of water drop shape, up to 2 cm wide and 3 cm long, 1 cocoon may contain 300-400 eggs. Females live up to 3 years. This species is harmless to human. Handling is possible (watch my previous videos).

I have found this species in 3 different places yet, 3 different habitats – a cellar (this video), a cave and an old military bunker. They live in darkness and cold. You can see more spider and bug species, but I’m not able to identify the exact species, but you can help me with that.

This video was filmed in darkness, using LED ring, LED panel, macro lens, kit lens, DSLR camera and basic tripod. That cellar is quite low and I was crouched most of the time.

You can help me to identify other cave/cellar monsters from this video. This video was filmed in the north part of The Czech Republic, mid Europe.

My former videos about this species + handling

   • Handling big creepy Cave spider (Meta mena...  
   • Creepy den of Cave spiders, cocoons, sling...  

Different names

European Cave Spider
Orb weaving Spider
Cave Orb weaver
Cave Spider
Meta temnostní (Czech name)

Music was composed by me, I have a digital piano Yamaha NP-V80 piaggero. I work with the following software: Audacity, Sony Vegas Pro 13, Magix Music Maker 2014. I've been playing on the piano since July 2012.

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