Venomous spiders fighting – Yellow sac spider (Cheiracanthium punctorium)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔽 License the footage here: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The yellow sac spider Cheiracanthium punctorium is among the biggest and most venomous spiders in Europe. It inhabits warm, dry places with long grass where it builds a flat silk sac. Here it spends most of its day (even life), and goes out to hunt after nightfall. Ch. punctorium is quite aggressive and does not hesitate to attack a human when threatened. Its mandibles (chelicerae) are big and strong enough to pierce through human skin. The consequences of the bite can be compared to a bee sting. There is no need to be frightened but in summer it is advisable to move carefully around the grasslands where this species lives. In this video you can see two big males fighting over a female’s sac. The winner
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