Brazilian wandering spider
The Brazilian wandering spider is a big, hairy brown spider from South America. It does not build a web. Instead it wanders around at night and waits to pounce on its food. When it feels scared, it lifts its front legs high as a warning.
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Fun facts
It hides under logs and in cracks during the day and comes out at night.
Raising its front legs high is its way of saying: stay back.
Sometimes it hides in bunches of bananas, so people moving bananas need to be careful.
A mother can lay about 1,000 eggs and keeps them safe in a silk bag.
To win a female, the male does a little dance for her.
Most asked questions about Brazilian wandering spider
?Does the Brazilian wandering spider make a web?
No. It walks around at night and ambushes its prey instead.
?How big is a Brazilian wandering spider?
Its body can be about 5 centimetres long, and its legs can span about 15 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phoneutria nigriventer
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Ctenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Ctenidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Phoneutria nigriventer (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Gionorossi. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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