Dark fishing spider
The dark fishing spider is a big brown spider with stripy legs. Even though it is called a fishing spider, it mostly lives on trees in the woods. With its legs stretched out it can be as wide as a grown-up's hand.
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Its legs can reach 5 to 9 centimetres from tip to tip.
It has light stripes and arrow-shaped marks on its brown body.
It sometimes wanders into houses that stand near the woods.
The female is about twice as long as the male.
Most asked questions about Dark fishing spider
?How big is the dark fishing spider?
The female's body is up to about 2.6 centimetres long, and with its legs it can be up to 9 centimetres wide.
?Where does the dark fishing spider live?
In woods in the United States and Canada, mostly on tree trunks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dolomedes tenebrosus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pisauridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dolomedes tenebrosus (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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