Yellow-legged zipper spider
Trachyzelotes pedestris
The yellow-legged zipper spider is a small dark brown spider with bright yellow to orange legs. It likes sunny, dry grassland and hides under stones.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Western and central Europe, including Estonia, in dry grassland under stones
Length
4.5 to 9.4 mm (0.18 to 0.37 in)
What does it eat?
Like other ground spiders, it hunts small insects and other tiny animals on the ground.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3 seconds⚡moves 35 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Yellow-legged zipper 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
The mother hides her egg sacs under stones.
2
Females are bigger than males. A big female is almost 1 centimetre long.
3
Grown-up spiders are out from May to August, most of all in June.
4
One spider expert once found it in his kitchen sink.
5
It lives in many European countries, Estonia too.
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Most asked questions about Yellow-legged zipper spider
?Where does the yellow-legged zipper spider live?
In western and central Europe, including Estonia, mostly in dry grassland under stones.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trachyzelotes pedestris
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Gnaphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Gnaphosidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Trachyzelotes pedestris (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 Slimguy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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