Desert grass spider
The desert grass spider lives in dry, sunny places. It builds a flat sheet of web with a tunnel at the back, like a slide leading into a tube. It waits in the tube and dashes out on its long legs when something lands on the web.
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Fun facts
Its web is not sticky. It relies on speed to grab its prey before it escapes.
Its tube has a back door at the bottom, so it can escape if danger comes.
It guards its patch of ground and will fight other spiders that come too close.
It can survive very cold temperatures, even though it lives in the desert.
It has eight eyes arranged in two curved rows.
Most asked questions about Desert grass spider
?How big is a desert grass spider?
Its body is about 13 to 18 millimetres long, and it has long legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agelenopsis aperta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Agelenopsis aperta (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 Juan Cruzado Cortés. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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