Noble false widow
The noble false widow is a shiny brown spider with a round body and reddish-orange legs. On its back it has cream-coloured markings that some people say look like a little skull. It looks a bit like a black widow, but it is a different spider.
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Fun facts
It is one of the fastest spreading spiders in the world.
It can be found all year round, both indoors and outdoors.
It likes seaside towns with mild weather.
Even spiders from the same egg sac can look very different from each other.
It was first seen in England in 1879.
Most asked questions about Noble false widow
?How do you recognise a noble false widow?
It is shiny brown with a round body, reddish-orange legs and cream markings on its back.
?How big is a noble false widow?
Females are about 9.5 to 14 millimetres long, males 7 to 11 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Steatoda nobilis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- False widow
Where the facts come from
- Steatoda nobilis (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 Alexis Lours. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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