Diving bell spider
The diving bell spider is the only spider known to live almost entirely underwater. It makes its home in clean freshwater across Europe and Asia. It is special because it breathes air that it carries down from the surface and keeps in a silk bell under the water.1

No anndirte ngal
- Out of the water, it is mid to dark brown.1
- Hairs on the abdomen give it a dark grey, velvet-like look.1
- Underwater, an air bubble trapped by dense hairs on the abdomen and legs makes it look silvery.1
- Males have a head-and-body length of 10 to 15 mm, and females 8 to 12 mm.1
- It spends most of its time inside a silk diving bell, darting out to catch prey.1
Doole tooke
Tooke ngal ina yaltira ñiiƴe mum so ina ŋata.
Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?
Reports describe a bite that is painful, with local swelling, vomiting and a slight fever that lasts 5 to 10 days. These reports are old and unverified, so the effects are not well confirmed.1
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.The bite is reputedly painful, but there is no solid evidence of serious harm to people. Recent confirmed reports are lacking.1
So ina ŋata
- Loot nokku ŋataaɗo oo, waɗ galaas e mum ngam muusu ngu. Heɓ ballal cafrol so muusu ngu ina tiiɗi, ina saakoo walla neɗɗo oo ina wiya wonaa e jam.
Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
- Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- So gooto ŋatii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
ɓuri hondu maa tokooso rabbaɗdeHol no Diving bell spider mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no yaawiri?
Humpito
It is the only known spider that spends almost its whole life underwater, including resting, hunting, mating, laying eggs and overwintering. It surfaces only briefly to refill its air supply.1
Its diving bell is made of waterproof silk and lets gases pass through. Oxygen flows in and carbon dioxide flows out, so the bell works like a kind of gill.1
Nitrogen slowly leaves the bell, so the air bubble shrinks and the spider must keep refilling it.1
Unlike most spiders, the males are larger than the females, and they are more active hunters.1
Feññinoowo fenaande
Fenaande: Its bite is very painful and causes vomiting and fever.
Goonga: These effects are based on old, unverified reports. There is no solid evidence for them, and recent confirmed reports are lacking.1
Ngam ganduɓe tooke
- Innde ganndal
- Argyroneta aquatica
- Fedde
- Araañeeji
- Ɓesngu
- Argyronetidae2
- Ordre
- Araneae
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Orop, Aazi
- Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
- After mating in the female's bell, she builds an egg sac inside it and lays between 30 and 70 eggs.1
- Juuteendi nguurndam
- hedde duuɓi 21
- Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
- Endangered in South Korea1
- Bone e yimɓe
- 2 / 5: Muusɗo3
Ɗo humpito iwri
- Diving bell spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Argyroneta aquatica (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
Ŋatgol

