Toothed weaver
Textrix denticulata
The toothed weaver is a small brown spider with stripy legs. It builds a little funnel web that ends in a tube. It waits in the tube, and when a bug touches the web, it rushes out to catch it.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Much of Europe, on sunny rocks, walls and forest edges
Length
6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects that walk onto its funnel web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 38 times its own body length every second
How big is Toothed weaver compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Toothed weaver about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is mostly active at night.
2
The mother puts 50 to 60 eggs in a yellow egg sac and covers it with soil and little stones.
3
It hides its egg sac under rocks and in cracks.
4
Sometimes it moves into houses.
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Most asked questions about Toothed weaver
?Where does the toothed weaver live?
In much of Europe, on rocks, walls, forest edges and sometimes in houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Textrix denticulata
- Named by
- Olivier, 1789
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Agelenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Agelenidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Textrix denticulata (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 Accipiter R. Altenkamp, Berlin. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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