Did you know that the Spruce-fir moss spider was first identified in 1923? These spiders make there homes in the moss that grow on rocks underneath the forest canopy in the Southern Appalachian Moutains. They are found in high elevated sections of the forest.
They construct tube like webs believed to be housing for prey has never been found in them. They feed on springtails that are abundant in the mossy mats.
The Spruce-fir moss spider were put on the endangered list in 1995 due to the lost of there habitat. There has been a wide spread death of fraser furs cause by the infestation of Balsam woolly adelgid. The death of these trees are causing a drying of the forest ground, drying the moss, from the loss of the forest canopy.
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