Cat-faced spider
The cat-faced spider is a round, chubby orb-weaver spider. On its big tummy are two little bumps that look like a cat's ears, so its back looks a bit like a cat's face. It often builds its round web near lights and on the walls of houses.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It comes in many colours, and its colour changes between summer and winter.
The mother lays one egg sac with hundreds of eggs in it.
The eggs stay safe in their sac through the winter.
Baby spiders float away on silk threads in the warm air and can travel for kilometres.
It likes to build its web near lamps, where lots of insects fly at night.
Most asked questions about Cat-faced spider
?Why is it called the cat-faced spider?
Two bumps on its tummy look like cat ears, so its back looks like a cat's face.
?What does the cat-faced spider eat?
Flies, mosquitoes and other small insects, and sometimes small spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araneus gemmoides
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Jewel spider
Where the facts come from
- Araneus gemmoides (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 Trappist_the_monk ( talk ) ( Uploads ). CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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