Red house spider
Nesticodes rufipes
The red house spider is a small spider with a red body. It loves living indoors and builds its messy little webs in dark corners and under furniture. It is a helpful housemate that catches mosquitoes and flies.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Warm countries all around the world, often inside houses
What does it eat?
It catches insects such as mosquitoes, flies and ants in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Red house spider about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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 has spread around the warm parts of the world by travelling on ships and planes.
2
It is the only species in its genus.
3
In some homes it is extremely common.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red house spider
?What does the red house spider eat?
Mosquitoes, flies, ants and other small insects that get caught in its web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nesticodes rufipes
- Named by
- Lucas, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Nesticodes (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 Tiago Lubiana. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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