Hobo spider
The hobo spider is a brown spider with V-shaped stripes on its back end that point towards its head. It builds a flat web like a little trampoline with a funnel at one side. It waits at the narrow end of the funnel for insects to stumble onto its web.
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Fun facts
In Europe it usually stays out of houses, because the bigger giant house spider lives there.
It lays its eggs in September, and the babies hatch the next spring.
It probably reached a small island between Denmark and Sweden by riding on trains.
Its genus name Eratigena is made by mixing up the letters of its old name, Tegenaria.
Most asked questions about Hobo spider
?How big is a hobo spider?
Its body is 7 to 14 millimetres long.
?What kind of web does a hobo spider make?
A flat sheet web with a funnel at one side, where the spider hides and waits.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eratigena agrestis
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1802
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Hobo 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 Géry PARENT. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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