Cave spider
The cave spider is a small, pale yellow spider with dark brown markings. It loves dark, damp places, so you might meet it in a cellar. It even has a tiny comb on its back legs.
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Fun facts
It lives in damp, dark places like caves, mines, cellars, sewers and hollow trees.
Its web is a loose platform of sticky threads that catches insects walking by.
Cave spiders living in darker places have lighter markings.
A male says hello to a female by gently knocking on her web.
The babies hatch about 25 to 28 days after the eggs are laid.
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?Where does the cave spider live?
In dark, damp places such as caves, cellars and hollow trees in Europe, Turkey and North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nesticus cellulanus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Nesticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Nesticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Cavity spider, Comb-footed cellar spider
Where the facts come from
- Nesticus cellulanus (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 Adrian Tync. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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