Bowl and doily spider
The bowl and doily spider is a tiny reddish brown spider with white dots along its sides. It builds a web with two parts: an upside-down bowl on top and a flat sheet underneath. It hangs under the bowl and waits for bugs to fall in.
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Fun facts
Its web is not sticky. Insects bump into the threads and fall down into it.
A male and a female spider often live together in the same web, which is unusual for spiders.
If someone takes away its catch, it searches for it, and it looks harder if the lost bug was big.
Females that eat less food live longer, but lay their eggs later.
It is busiest in May and June, and again in September.
Most asked questions about Bowl and doily spider
?Why is it called the bowl and doily spider?
Because its web has a bowl shape on top and a flat sheet like a lace doily below.
?How big is the bowl and doily spider?
About 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Frontinella pyramitela
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1841
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Linyphiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bowl and doily 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 IvanTortuga. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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