Turf running spider
The turf running spider is a small, quick spider that lives on leaves. It is brown or yellow, often with little spots. It does not build a web to catch food. Instead it waits very still and then pounces.
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Fun facts
It is the most common spider in European fruit orchards.
Farmers like it, because it eats pests that would harm their fruit trees.
To say hello to a female, the male taps her body with his front legs.
A mother spider lays around 250 eggs and wraps them in five to seven little egg cocoons.
Males are busiest in the daytime, while females are busiest at dawn and dusk.
Most asked questions about Turf running spider
?What does the turf running spider eat?
Aphids, other small insects and sometimes other spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Philodromus cespitum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Philodromidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Philodromidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Philodromus cespitum (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 Accipiter (R. Altenkamp, Berlin). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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