Marbled cellar spider
The marbled cellar spider is a small spider with very long, thin legs ringed with black and white at the joints. It is a kind of daddy long-legs spider. It lives in basements, attics and under the edges of roofs, often sharing webs with other spiders of its kind.
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Fun facts
Both males and females can make sounds by rubbing parts of their mouths together. In most spiders only males do this.
Many of them live together in groups and move to new webs several times in their lives.
Mothers with eggs build a round dome web that wraps all around them.
When a group catches food, the biggest spider usually wins it.
Most asked questions about Marbled cellar spider
?Where does the marbled cellar spider live?
In basements, attics, eaves of houses, under rocks and in caves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Holocnemus pluchei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pholcidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Holocnemus pluchei (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 Sesamehoneytart. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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