Sierra dome spider
Neriene litigiosa
The sierra dome spider is a small sheet weaver spider from North America. Instead of a round wheel web, it spins a flat sheet of silk shaped like a little dome or tent. It waits underneath for tiny insects to tumble in.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, and it has also been brought to China
What does it eat?
It eats small insects that get caught in its sheet web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Sierra dome spider 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
Scientists have studied how these spiders find a partner since 1980, at a lake research station in Montana.
2
It has also been carried to China, far from its home in North America.
3
It belongs to the sheet weavers, a huge family of mostly small spiders.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sierra dome spider
?What kind of web does the sierra dome spider make?
A sheet web shaped like a little dome, where it waits for insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neriene litigiosa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Linyphiidae
- Lives on
- North America, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Neriene litigiosa (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 David Badke. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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