Barn Spider

Class: Scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen, and spiders    Order: Spiders   

Family: Orb-weaving spiders

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Barn spiders are NOT venomous to humans, but they are venomous to the insects that they eat.

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Barn spiders only eat insects.

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Barn spiders got their name because they live in barns and other places like porches and suburban trees.

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Before the Barn spider came to cities it probably used to live in caves and rocky cliffs.