Old World dome sheetweaver
Neriene montana
The Old World dome sheetweaver is a small brown spider that builds a web shaped like a hammock. It hangs upside down underneath its web and waits. Its yellow-brown legs have lots of stripy rings.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Northern Europe and other cool northern lands, among bushes and low plants
Length
4 to 7 mm (0.16 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects that fall or fly into its hammock web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.6 seconds⚡moves 40 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Old World dome sheetweaver about 1 km/h (0.62 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
It builds its web among bushes, on tree trunks or under logs.
2
Males have a slimmer tummy than females.
3
The ringed legs help experts tell it apart from similar spiders.
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Most asked questions about Old World dome sheetweaver
?How big is the Old World dome sheetweaver?
Its body is about 4 to 7 millimetres long, without the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neriene montana
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Linyphiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Neriene montana (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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