Walckenaer's feather-legged spider
Walckenaer's feather-legged spider is a small grey and white spider with fluffy tufts of white hair. Instead it wraps its catch in a huge amount of silk.
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It can use more than 140 metres of thread to tie up its prey. That is longer than a football pitch.
Its round web lies flat, close to the ground, and the spider hangs underneath the middle.
Its two front pairs of legs are much longer than the back pairs.
It has eight eyes in two neat rows of four.
It is named after Charles Athanase Walckenaer, a French spider scientist.
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Females are 3.5 to 6 millimetres long and males 3 to 4 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Uloborus walckenaerius
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Uloboridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Uloboridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Feather-legged spider, Fluffy hackled orb-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Uloborus walckenaerius (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 Alexandre Buisse ( Nattfodd ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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