Yellow sac spider
The yellow sac spider is a pale yellow and orange spider with long legs. It does not catch food in a web. Instead it builds a big silk sac in tall grass, where it hides and keeps its eggs.
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Fun facts
The mother builds an egg sac about 4 centimetres big in high grass and guards it fiercely.
She keeps guarding her babies for about 17 days after they hatch.
The baby spiders fly away on silk threads. Static electricity, the same thing that makes your hair stand up, helps lift them.
There are the most of these spiders in the grassy steppes of Central Asia.
Most asked questions about Yellow sac spider
?How big is the yellow sac spider?
Its body is about 1.5 centimetres long.
?Where does the yellow sac spider live?
In tall grass and meadows from central Europe to Central Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cheiracanthium punctorium
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Cheiracanthiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cheiracanthium punctorium (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 Ludivine Lamare. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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