Featherlegged orbweaver
Uloborus glomosus
The featherlegged orbweaver is a small spider that builds a round web. Instead it catches insects in fuzzy silk and wraps them up tight.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, including Canada
What does it eat?
It eats small insects that get caught in its fuzzy web, wrapping them in silk.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Featherlegged orbweaver 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
Its silk is not sticky. It is fuzzy, and insects get tangled in it like in wool.
2
When something shakes its web, it may jump off, run to the edge, stay still or shake the web back.
3
If the mother has egg sacs in the web, she jerks the web to scare off trouble instead of walking away.
4
It is the only spider of its kind that lives in Canada.
you asked
Most asked questions about Featherlegged orbweaver
?How does the featherlegged orbweaver catch food?
It traps insects in fuzzy silk and then wraps them up.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Uloborus glomosus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Uloboridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Uloboridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Uloborus glomosus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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