Straight-banded nursery web spider
The straight-banded nursery web spider is a long-legged hunting spider from eastern North America. It has a band along its back with straight edges, which gives it its name. The mother spider builds a special web nursery for her babies.
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Fun facts
Its babies grow up in a nursery, a bell-shaped tent of spider silk.
It looks almost exactly like its cousin, the nursery web spider Pisaurina mira, but its legs are a bit shorter.
It seems to like grassland, bogs and swamps.
Scientists still know very little about how it lives.
Most asked questions about Straight-banded nursery web spider
?Why is it called a nursery web spider?
Because the mother builds a bell-shaped silk nursery where her babies grow up.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pisaurina brevipes
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pisauridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pisaurina brevipes (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 Patrick Edwin Moran. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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