American dewdrop spider
The American dewdrop spider is a tiny spider with a shiny silver body shaped like a drop of dew. It is a sneaky thief. It lives in the webs of bigger spiders and steals the food they catch.
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Fun facts
A theft is super quick and lasts at most 12 seconds.
Usually one or two live in a big spider's web, but up to 45 can share one.
It moves so gently that the host spider often does not feel it coming.
The male brings the female a present of food wrapped in silk.
The mother lays only one or two eggs at a time on the edge of the host's web.
Most asked questions about American dewdrop spider
?Why is it called a dewdrop spider?
Its body is shiny silver and shaped like a drop of dew.
?What does the dewdrop spider eat?
Mostly insects it steals from other spiders' webs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argyrodes elevatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Dew-drop spider
Where the facts come from
- Argyrodes elevatus (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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