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Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

This is quite a large spider, its heads and body alone are over 15mm (more than half an inch). What is it and what's it doing?

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The Nursery web spider uses its fangs to carry its babies around in a silk cocoon. When when they are old enough, it builds a silk tent for them to live in till the spiderlings are big enough to survive on their own

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