Grey house spider
The grey house spider is a medium-sized spider covered in light grey hairs, with purplish brown striped legs. It lives close to people, in window frames, walls and rubbish bins. It builds a messy web that spreads out from a crack like a ladder.
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Fun facts
It hides in a crack and spins zig-zag ladder-like threads out from it.
A female can spend her whole life in the same web. The male leaves home only to find a mate.
Baby spiders can fly away on the wind by letting out a long silk thread, like a tiny kite.
It has hitched rides around the world on ships, trains, planes and goods.
It has even been found living inside artificial flowers in cemeteries.
Most asked questions about Grey house spider
?Where does the grey house spider live?
Mostly near people, in window frames, walls, bins and gardens.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Badumna longinqua
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Desidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Desidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Badumna longinqua (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 Campoplex. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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