Two-lined stealthy ground spider
Cesonia bilineata
The two-lined stealthy ground spider is a ground spider from North America. Ground spiders do not build webs to catch food. They creep around on the ground and sneak up on their prey.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, in forests, prairies and even towns
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects and other little animals on the ground.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Two-lined stealthy ground spider about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in many places: forests, prairies and even in cities.
2
In summer the mother lays her eggs in a silk sac hidden under stones or leaves.
3
It was first described in 1847 by Nicholas Hentz, an early spider expert in America.
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Most asked questions about Two-lined stealthy ground spider
?Where does it live?
In North America, in forests, prairies and towns.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cesonia bilineata
- Named by
- Hentz, 1847
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Gnaphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Gnaphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cesonia bilineata (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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