Red-sided sector spider
The red-sided sector spider spins a round web with a funny gap in it. Two slices of the web are missing, like a pizza with two pieces gone. Through the gap runs one special thread that leads to its hiding place.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
The special thread in the gap is like a telephone line. When an insect hits the web, the spider feels it and runs out.
Young spiders make a full round web with no gap at all.
Its close cousin likes to live on houses, but this spider stays out on bushes and rocks away from people.
It is more brown than its cousin.
Most asked questions about Red-sided sector spider
?Why does the red-sided sector spider's web have a gap?
The gap holds a signal thread that leads to its hiding place, so it can feel when something lands in the web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zygiella atrica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Zygiella atrica (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 Olei. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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