White-spotted false widow
Steatoda albomaculata
The white-spotted false widow is a spider with white spots. It belongs to the cobweb spiders, a family that builds messy, tangled webs. It lives in many parts of the world.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia as far as Japan
What does it eat?
Like other cobweb spiders, it catches small insects in its tangled web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White-spotted false widow about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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 lives across North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia, all the way to China, Korea and Japan.
2
Until 2024 scientists split it into two kinds. Now they count it as just one.
3
It is called a false widow because it is related to the black widow, but it is not one.
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Most asked questions about White-spotted false widow
?Where does the white-spotted false widow live?
In North America, Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, as far as Japan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Steatoda albomaculata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Steatoda albomaculata (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 Hemm, V.. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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