Labyrinth spider
The labyrinth spider builds a big flat web on the grass, with a funnel-shaped hideout in one corner. The funnel leads into a maze of silk, which is how it got its name. It waits in the funnel and rushes out when something lands on its web.
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Fun facts
Most of its webs are about 60 centimetres above the ground, about as high as a kitchen chair seat.
Special hairs on its legs feel even tiny shakes in the web, so it knows at once when prey has landed.
It can find its way between web and funnel even in complete darkness.
The male taps on the female's web to say hello before he comes closer.
The mother wraps 50 to 130 eggs in a white egg sac and hides it in a silk room. The babies stay inside all winter and come out in spring.
Most asked questions about Labyrinth spider
?Why is it called the labyrinth spider?
Its funnel leads into a hideout of silk tunnels that looks like a maze, also called a labyrinth.
?How big is the labyrinth spider?
Its body can be up to 18 millimetres long, almost 2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agelena labyrinthica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Agelena labyrinthica (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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