Erber's lace-weaver
Amaurobius erberi
Erber's lace-weaver is a spider that likes to hide. You can find it under stones, under logs and in piles of fallen leaves. Like all spiders, it has eight legs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and the Canary Islands, under stones, logs and fallen leaves
What does it eat?
Like other spiders, it catches insects and other small creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Erber's lace-weaver 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 looks almost exactly like two of its cousins, so experts have to check tiny body parts to tell them apart.
2
The males become grown-ups in autumn.
3
Grown-up females can probably be found all year round.
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Most asked questions about Erber's lace-weaver
?Where does Erber's lace-weaver live?
In Europe and on the Canary Islands, hidden under stones, logs and fallen leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amaurobius erberi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Amaurobiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Amaurobiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Amaurobius erberi (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 Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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