Rabbit hutch spider
The rabbit hutch spider is a small brown spider with a round, shiny belly. It likes to live near people, in sheds, basements and, yes, rabbit hutches. That is how it got its name.
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Fun facts
Its back has a pale line down the middle and pairs of dark dots that look like little dimples.
Underneath, its belly has a pattern that looks like the infinity sign, a sideways 8.
The female is light brown and often shinier than the male.
Its body is rarely longer than 7 millimetres.
Most asked questions about Rabbit hutch spider
?Why is it called the rabbit hutch spider?
Because rabbit hutches are one of its favourite places to live.
?Where does the rabbit hutch spider live?
In and around buildings like sheds, basements and hutches, in North America, Europe and Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Steatoda bipunctata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- False widow
Where the facts come from
- Steatoda bipunctata (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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