2. Trapdoor Spider Looks Like Where Lives Web Babies Enemies

3. Looks Like Trapdoor spiders are an inch or more long in the body with 8 short legs.The hairs on the body and legs are short.Trapdoor spiders are usually some shade of brown.They are not pretty.Their jaws are large.

4. Where Lives Trapdoor spiders live in tropical countries. Some live in North America and Europe.

5. Web Trapdoor spiders dig a shaft in the ground to live in. They make a trapdoor to get in and out of the shaft. That is why they are called trapdoor spiders. The trapdoor is made of silk. The spider digs a tunnel and lines it with silk to catch insects.The tunnel is one foot long.The spider gets food without ever coming out of the shaft.When an insect comes near, the trapdoor spider puts its fang in the insect and wraps it in silk.

6. Babies Trapdoor spiders lay 100 to 150 eggs. They hatch in August and September. The females lay their eggs in a silken cocoon on the wall of the shaft.

7. Enemies The trapdoor spider’s worst enemies are people and wasps.

8. Something Interesting The trapdoor spider uses one of its eight legs to open and close the trapdoor.