Pale cellar spider
The pale cellar spider has very long thin legs and a long, slim body with purple spots along the top. It loves dusty, dark corners of houses. There it hangs in a loose, messy web.
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Fun facts
When something disturbs it, it hangs upside down and shakes itself very fast to confuse the intruder.
Outdoors it builds webs under covered drains and on mud walls in gardens.
The males are smaller than the females.
Its long legs have no spines, only a few hairs.
Most asked questions about Pale cellar spider
?Why does the pale cellar spider shake its web?
When something bothers it, it vibrates very fast to confuse the intruder.
?What does the pale cellar spider eat?
Small insects and other spiders that get caught in its web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Smeringopus pallidus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pholcidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Pale daddy-long-leg
Where the facts come from
- Smeringopus pallidus (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 Mayukhghose. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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