Degeer's thickjaw
Pachygnatha degeeri
Degeer's thickjaw is a tiny spider from Europe with a dark body and light yellow-orange legs. It is only about 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe, in woods and among plants
Length
4 to 4.5 mm (0.16 to 0.18 in)
females are a little bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It catches tiny insects and other very small creatures.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.5 seconds⚡moves 49 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Degeer's thickjaw about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It has eight eyes at the front of its head.
2
You can see grown-up spiders from the middle of summer until the first frosts of winter.
3
The pattern on its back can look quite different from one spider to the next.
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Most asked questions about Degeer's thickjaw
?How big is Degeer's thickjaw?
Tiny. Females are about 4.5 millimetres long and males about 4 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pachygnatha degeeri
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Pachygnatha degeeri (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 This image is created by user Frank van de Putte at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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