Indian cooperative spider
The Indian cooperative spider is a spider that lives in a big family, which is very unusual for spiders. Many of them build one shared nest out of silk, leaves and twigs, with a big sheet web for catching food. They hunt together and share their meals.
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Fun facts
It is short and chubby and covered in fine hairs that make it look ash grey.
On its back it has three white stripes and six pairs of dots.
A colony has many more girls than boys.
It loves to build its nests on prickly pear cactus bushes, sometimes covering them completely.
A spider that has attacked prey once is more likely to attack again, whatever its size.
Most asked questions about Indian cooperative spider
?Do spiders really live together?
Most spiders live alone, but the Indian cooperative spider lives in big colonies and shares food and nests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Eresidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Eresidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum (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 (c) @dineshphotography7797, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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