Bowl-And-Doily Spider

frontinella pyramitela

The Bowl-And-Doily Spider is a small spider that spins beautiful, flat webs shaped like bowls. These webs are perfect for catching tiny insects, making it a helpful little hunter in gardens!

Lebensraum: Gardens, grassy areas, and woodlands.

Aussehen

The Bowl-And-Doily Spider is a tiny arachnid, typically 2-4 mm long, with a tan or light brown abdomen often marked with subtle, dark chevrons or stripes. Its cephalothorax is usually a darker brown, and it has eight slender, pale legs. Its small size and subtle patterning make it blend well into its environment.

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Bowl-And-Doily Spider

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

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Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Baby spiders can fly through the air on silk threads!

Its tiny silk strands are incredibly strong for its size!

Males 'drum' on the web to attract a mate. Wow!

They eat thousands of pesky insects each year!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

The Bowl-And-Doily Spider can build an amazing 3D web resembling a bowl atop a flat doily, which helps them ensnare unsuspecting flying insects.

This spider has super-sensitive leg hairs that allow it to detect the tiniest vibrations in its web, helping them locate trapped prey instantly.

Bowl-And-Doily Spiders can swiftly drop from their 'bowl' to the 'doily' below to grab falling prey, ensuring no meal escapes their clever trap.

Maße und Details

Größe: 2-4 mm
Lebenserwartung: 300-400 Tage
Anzahl der Beine: 8

Ernährung und Fütterung

A tiny hunter, it traps small flying insects like gnats and flies in its unique web structure.

Hauptnahrung

gnats
small flies
mosquitoes
aphids
midges

Nahrungssuche

Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Traps mosquitoes in its web.

hunts

Common Fruit Fly

Drosophila melanogaster

Captures fruit flies attracted to plants.

eaten by

Black-capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus

Chickadees may prey on spiders.

eaten by

Organ-pipe Mud Dauber

Trypoxylon politum

Wasp provisions nest with spiders.

Merkmale

Einzelgänger

Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.

Farbenfroh

Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.

Wald

Waldlebensräume sind terrestrische Lebensräume, die von dichtem Baumbestand dominiert werden und eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen- und Tierarten beherbergen.