Candy-stripe spider
The candy-stripe spider is a tiny spider with a round belly that can look like a sweet. Some have a white or cream belly, some have one red stripe, and some have two red stripes. It may be small, but it is a brave hunter.
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Fun facts
Its legs are see-through, a bit like glass.
There are three colour types. The type with an all-red back is the rarest one.
It hides under a leaf and pulls the edges of the leaf down with its silk to make a little tent.
The mother wraps her eggs in a white bag inside a rolled-up leaf and guards them until the babies hatch. She even brings food to her spiderlings.
The egg bag starts white and turns blue-grey after a few days.
Most asked questions about Candy-stripe spider
?How big is a candy-stripe spider?
Its body is about 6 millimetres long, not counting the legs. That is about as long as a grain of rice.
?Where does the candy-stripe spider live?
In Europe and North America, under the leaves of low plants in fields, forest edges and roadsides.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enoplognatha ovata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Common candy-striped spider
Where the facts come from
- Enoplognatha ovata (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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