Feather-legged lace weaver
The feather-legged lace weaver is a small grey brown spider with fluffy tufts of hair on its front legs. It hangs very still, upside down, in a flat little web. It looks so much like a bit of dead bark that it is very hard to spot.
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Fun facts
Its silk is fuzzy, like wool. It traps insects without any glue.
Baby spiders look like dead insects stuck in the web, so nobody notices them.
Its empty egg sac is flat, brown and papery, shaped like a dried holly leaf.
Females sometimes argue over a web by pulling and shaking the threads.
Most asked questions about Feather-legged lace weaver
?Why is it called the garden centre spider?
Because it is often found on house plants in warm greenhouses at garden centres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Uloborus plumipes
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Uloboridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Uloboridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, South America
- Also known as
- Garden centre spider
Where the facts come from
- Uloborus plumipes (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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