Yellow ghost spider
The yellow ghost spider is a small spider that can be yellow, beige, tan or brown. It hunts at night and hides in a little silk shelter during the day. Farmers like it, because it eats insects that harm orange and lemon trees.
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Fun facts
It has eight eyes, set in two groups of four.
Farmers use it to protect orange and lemon orchards, because it eats a pest called the citrus leafminer.
It especially likes to eat the eggs of moths, butterflies and other spiders.
Its silk hiding places are under rocks, behind tree bark and in fallen leaves.
In Florida you can find it all year round, even on small mangrove islands.
Most asked questions about Yellow ghost spider
?What does the yellow ghost spider eat?
Small insects, insect eggs and spider eggs, plus a little sweet plant juice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hibana velox
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Anyphaenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Anyphaenidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Hibana velox (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 Christian Chapu. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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