Striped fishing spider
Dolomedes scriptus
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersPonds, rivers and shores8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The striped fishing spider is a big, pale brown spider with light stripes. It has light rings around its legs and a pale stripe down each side of its body. Fishing spiders like to live near water.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The United States and Canada, near water
What does it eat?
It hunts small animals, like other spiders do. Fishing spiders often catch insects near and on the water.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Striped fishing 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
A big female can be more than 6 centimetres across, from the tip of one leg to the tip of the other.
2
Its legs have light bands, so they look striped.
3
It looks a lot like a close cousin, the dark fishing spider.
you asked
Most asked questions about Striped fishing spider
?How big is the striped fishing spider?
A big female can measure more than 6 centimetres with its legs stretched out.
?Where does the striped fishing spider live?
In the United States and Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dolomedes scriptus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pisauridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dolomedes scriptus (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 Er1kksen. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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