Bleeding heart spider
Nigma puella
The bleeding heart spider is a small spider. The female is very pretty: her body is light green with a big dark red blotch, like a little heart. She makes a flat web on the top of a leaf.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and North Africa, and islands in the Atlantic such as the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands
What does it eat?
It eats small insects that get caught in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Bleeding heart 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
The male looks quite different from the female. He is reddish brown all over.
2
Its web lies flat across the top of a leaf, like a little sheet.
3
The amount of red stripes on the female's green body is different on every spider.
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Most asked questions about Bleeding heart spider
?What does the bleeding heart spider look like?
The female is light green with a dark red blotch. The male is reddish brown.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nigma puella
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Dictynidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Dictynidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Nigma puella (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 Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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