Arizona black hole spider
Kukulcania arizonica
The Arizona black hole spider is a black spider with a soft, velvety look. It lives in a silk tube hidden in a crack, often in the wall of a house. From the dark entrance, silk threads spread out like rays of the sun.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California in the United States
Length
1.3 cm (0.51 in)
the female, without legsWhat does it eat?
It catches insects that bump into the silk threads around its hiding hole.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.6 seconds⚡moves 30 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Arizona black hole spider about 1.4 km/h (0.87 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
The female can live for several years.
2
The male looks very different, with much longer legs and a thinner body.
3
Its name comes from the dark hole in its silk tube.
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Most asked questions about Arizona black hole spider
?Where does the black hole spider live?
In Arizona and nearby states, often in cracks in the walls of buildings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Kukulcania arizonica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Filistatidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Filistatidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Kukulcania arizonica (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 Tamberly Conway. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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