Pennsylvania grass spider
The Pennsylvania grass spider builds a flat web with a funnel at one end, like a little tunnel. It sits at the opening of the funnel and waits. When an insect lands on the web, it rushes out super fast to grab it.
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Fun facts
It lives alone and does all its hunting from its funnel web.
Young spiders show different personalities: some are bold and some are shy.
Its front middle eyes are its biggest eyes.
It likes damp places, so you find more of them near rivers and floodplains.
Sometimes the female eats the male when they meet to mate.
Most asked questions about Pennsylvania grass spider
?What does a grass spider eat?
Insects that land on its web, such as beetles, flies and grasshoppers.
?How big is the Pennsylvania grass spider?
It is about 7 to 14 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agelenopsis pennsylvanica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Pennsylvania funnel-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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