Furrow spider
The furrow spider is an orb-web spider with a big round tummy. It can be black, grey or reddish, and has a pale arrow pattern on its back. It builds its web in tall grass and bushes near water.
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Fun facts
It has eight eyes: six in a row and two more on top in the middle.
In the day it hides in a little silk tent covered with bits of plants, and comes out at night.
It builds a fresh web every evening.
It does not hibernate. In winter it can survive cold down to minus 20 degrees.
In summer the female makes three to five yellow egg sacs.
Most asked questions about Furrow spider
?Where do furrow spiders live?
In damp places near water, with webs in grass and low bushes.
?How big is a furrow spider?
Females are about 6 to 14 millimetres long, males a bit smaller.
Myth buster
Myth: Spiders cannot hear because they have no ears.
Truth: Spiders like this one can sense sounds with special hairs on their legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Larinioides cornutus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Furrow orb spider, Foliate spider
Where the facts come from
- Larinioides cornutus (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 Michael H. Lemmer. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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