Ladybird spider
The ladybird spider is a small, velvety spider. The male is black and bright orange-red, the colours of a ladybird. The female is completely black and stays hidden in her burrow.
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Fun facts
It digs a burrow up to 10 centimetres deep and covers the opening with a funnel-shaped web.
The mother carries her round, flat egg sac of up to 100 eggs into the sunshine to keep it warm.
The babies stay in their mother's burrow. After she dies, they even eat her as their first meal.
Some live in small groups of a couple dozen spiders, and some colonies have hundreds.
It is thought to be endangered.
Most asked questions about Ladybird spider
?Why is it called the ladybird spider?
Because the male is black and bright orange-red, like a ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eresus kollari
- Named by
- Rossi, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Eresidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Eresidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Eresus kollari (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 Fritz Geller-Grimm. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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