description Bowl and Doily Spider (Frontinella pyramitela) Overview
The Bowl and Doily Spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a small North American sheet weaver spider famous for its distinctive, complex web architecture. It constructs a three-dimensional web consisting of a dome-shaped "bowl" suspended above a flat "doily" sheet. The spider hangs upside down beneath the bowl, waiting for insects to fly into the non-sticky tangle of threads above before biting them through the web. This species is commonly found in woodlands and fields across eastern North America.
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Bowl and Doily Spider (Frontinella pyramitela) ranks #210 of 343 in the Spider ranking, behind Social Spider (Stegodyphus sarasinorum), ahead of Dimorphic Jumping Spider (Maevia inclemens).
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