Spider

Description:

This abundant spider belongs to the sheet-web weaver group, the unique Linyphiidae family. These spiders spin a flat, sheetlike or domed shaped web. Both the male and female of this species are very small, about 1/5 inch long, and are often found hanging upside down peacefully together in the same web during the summer. This spider has a brown color. The dark abdomen is longer than it is wide with a white pattern.

Habitat:

Hundreds of different sheet-web spiders are found in North America. The Bowl and Doily Spider is found throughout Virginia in shrubbery such as boxwood bushes and holly trees. Their modified sheet web is bowl shaped with another flat or "doily" web constructed beneath it. The spider lives between the bowl and doily