Civic meshweaver
The civic meshweaver is a tiny spider, only about 3 millimetres long. Its front part is dark brown and its legs are light brown. It loves to live on the walls of houses and other buildings, often with lots of neighbours.
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Fun facts
It builds its web on a wall and sits right in the middle, with sticky threads spreading out all around it.
It loves warmth. It does not like frost, rain or wind.
On buildings it often lives in big groups, but in nature its home is on rocks.
People carried it to South Africa by accident, and there its numbers can grow very fast.
Most asked questions about Civic meshweaver
?Where does the civic meshweaver live?
On the walls of buildings and on rocks in Europe, North Africa and Turkey, and now also in South Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brigittea civica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Dictynidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Dictynidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Brigittea civica (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 Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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