Tiger bromeliad spider
The tiger bromeliad spider is a big chocolate-brown hunting spider from Mexico and Central America. Underneath it is red-orange with a black patch. It spends the day hiding under leaves and comes out at night to wait for prey on a leaf.
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Fun facts
With its legs stretched out, a female can be 10 centimetres wide.
It finds its food mostly by feeling vibrations, because its eyes see no colours.
A male drums on a leaf to make it shake, and the female drums back to show him the way.
A mother can make an egg sac with up to 1,500 tiny babies inside.
Most asked questions about Tiger bromeliad spider
?How big is the tiger bromeliad spider?
The female's body can be 3.5 centimetres long, with legs reaching about 10 centimetres across.
?Where does the tiger bromeliad spider live?
In Mexico and Central America, often hiding in banana plants and bromeliads.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cupiennius salei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Trechaleidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Trechaleidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cupiennius salei (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 Stuart J. Longhorn. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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