Triangulate cobweb spider
The triangulate cobweb spider is a small spider with a round, creamy back end covered in purple-brown zigzag lines that look like triangles. It has an orange-brown front and thin yellowish legs. It often lives in dark corners of houses.
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Fun facts
It even eats spiders that can be harmful to people, like the brown recluse.
It cannot see well, so it feels its web shake to know when food has arrived.
Its egg sack is about as big as the spider itself and holds about 30 eggs.
Under its web you can sometimes find a pile of leftovers, from stink bugs to big house centipedes.
It is one of the smaller spiders in its family, but also one of the hungriest.
Most asked questions about Triangulate cobweb spider
?How big is a triangulate cobweb spider?
Only 3 to 6 millimetres long.
?Where do triangulate cobweb spiders live?
Mostly in dark corners of houses and other buildings, and under stones.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Steatoda triangulosa
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1802
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa
- Also known as
- Triangulate bud spider, Checkered cobweb weaver
Where the facts come from
- Triangulate cobweb spider (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 Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (Wendt, Ingo). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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