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Distribution: Europe and North America
Size Length: 6 mm
Life Span: Less than a year
Diet: Carnivorous
Social life: Solitary
IUCN red list status: No status
The Linyphia triangularis is very common and one of the largest money spiders. It lives in a wide range of habitats, where it may be found among low bushes and vegetation. It spins a horizontal sheet-web, and rests on the underside of the web to wait for its prey. Adults are more active in the late summer and autumn. They are active at night, and spend most of their lives near their webs. They are not social, the are coming together only to mate. The females are bigger than the males. The money spiders have special structures on their fangs that they can rub together to make sounds to communicate with. They probably also use web vibrations, and certainly use taste and smell to communicate.
