Domestic house spider
The domestic house spider is a brown spider with striped legs that often lives in our homes. It builds a flat web with a little tunnel in a corner and waits inside. It is shy and quick, and runs off in short dashes.
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Fun facts
Six of its eight eyes look forward, which helps it spot moving insects.
If nobody disturbs its web, the web can grow quite big over time.
In a dark cave between Greece and Albania, thousands of these spiders built one giant shared web bigger than a classroom floor.
Females living indoors can stay on the same web for a year or two, and some have lived for seven years.
It does not run smoothly. It moves in short bursts and stops often to decide where to go.
Most asked questions about Domestic house spider
?How do I get a house spider out of the room?
Put an open cup in front of it and gently push it from behind. It will walk forward into the cup, and you can carry it outside.
?How long does a house spider live?
Males usually live less than a year, but females indoors often live one or two years, sometimes longer.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tegenaria domestica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Barn funnel weaver
Where the facts come from
- Tegenaria domestica (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 Magne Flåten. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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