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Bowl-And-Doily Spider

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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!

Hábitat: Gardens, grassy areas, and woodlands.

Aspecto

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
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Bowl-And-Doily Spider

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Peligro

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Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Web Architect

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.

Habilidad

Vibration Whisperer

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

Habilidad

Acrobatic Retriever

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.

Medidas y detalles

Tamaño
2-4 mm
Esperanza de vida
300-400 días
Cantidad de patas
8

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • gnats
  • small flies
  • mosquitoes
  • aphids
  • midges

Método de búsqueda

  • Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

También conocido como

Bowl SpiderDoily Spider

Colecciones

Seguridad

Peligro

0/5 · Sin peligro conocido

Always observe spiders from a distance and do not touch them.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el tamaño de Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

2-4 mm

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

300-400 días

¿Qué come Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

Gardens, grassy areas, and woodlands.

¿Cómo caza Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

Ambush

¿Cuál es el cantidad de patas de Bowl-And-Doily Spider?

8

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