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Mature Spiders ordinarily need to run in and out of any hiding place that they have. Otherwise they could not catch anything. There is one kind of spider that is more closely related to tarantulas than to the spiders you ordinarily would see in any garden. It is called a tube-web spider. They make long tubes that are closed at the ends. The spider stays inside and when something like a cricket wanders onto the surface of the tube the spider will use its super-long fangs to grab it right through the tube. Then the spider will drag it into the tube, close the hole she just made, and eat dinner.

Another kind of spider, called the "nursery web spider," lays its eggs in a bush and then builds an enclosing web shelter all around a volume about the size of a volley ball. She stays on the outside to be on guard. When the eggs hatch the baby spiders will live in this enclosing web "house" until they are big and strong enough to make it on their own. Then they will come out of their protective environment.

Many other kinds of spiders will make little "tents" that they rest in, possibly lay eggs in, overwinter in, etc. These tents are really not sealed shut, although the sheets that make the top and bottom or the sides may overlap somehow so that the spider has something easy to get in and out of, sort of like a screen door on a house that has a spring but no latch.

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