Grey house spider
Badumna longinqua (Koch)
Order: Araneae
Family: Desidae
Size range
- Medium–sized spider. Body length about 15 mm
Distribution
- Australian native
- Found throughout New Zealand
Life History
- Untidy webs often found inside and on the outside of houses. Also on car mirrors
- Hides in a retreat at the base of the web till an insect is caught in the web
- Eats anything caught in the web, – blowflies, houseflies and moths