Identification

• Grass spiders are about 3/4 inch long, are brown or light gray in color and have several dark stripes on their head. They have dark banded legs and move very quickly.
  
  

Habitat and Habits

• Grass spiders build silk, funnel-shaped webs among shrubs and grass outdoors or in room corners indoors. Hiding within its web's "funnel," a grass spider swiftly ambushes and bites unwary prey straying onto the web.
  
  

Spider Venom

• The grass spider preys on small insects using its neurotoxic venom to paralyze the nervous system of its victims, which it then eats. A bite from a grass spider is considered low risk to humans.