The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America.

Some of their more common habitat sites include temperate woods and alpine forests, though they can also be found in more tropical, humid areas.

Thus, it has been suggested that F. pyramitela are able to remember previous information about prey, including size and quality.

The majority of spider species are solitary; it is, therefore, unique that F. pyramitela exhibit cohabitation between males and females.

In these spiders, males rarely build webs and thus rely upon female snares for fodder.

Male spiders typically stay at a female's nest for much longer than the time necessary for copulation.

The time that males eventually do leave the female's nest is randomly determined and not linked to specific events.

[9] The courtship practices of this spider are known to be both lengthy and elaborate and can be divided into the pre-mount and the mount phases.

It is suggested that these unique courtship behaviors function to help spiders of the F. pyramitela species to recognize one another, suppress female aggression, and facilitate the stimulation and synchronization of mating.

[4] Before copulating and building a sperm nest, male spiders will assess a female's virginity.

If the male determines that the female is a virgin, he will then fill his pedipalps with sperm and begin insemination.

[11] When forced to share a habitat with the nonnative European spider species Linyphia triangularis, Frontinella pyramitela were found to abandon their nests and decrease their nest building in areas where L. triangularis was present.

On days when insolation and ambient temperatures are high, the spiders will align themselves with sun rays.

Instead, the proposed function of this behavior is to depress the spider's metabolic rate so that the body knows to move nutrients from maintenance use to reproductive use.

The spiders' clock time helps determine their behavior at different hours of the day and varies throughout different seasons of the year.

[17] When exposed to a sublethal dose of the neurotoxic pesticide malathion, the normal diet periodicities, time budgets, and patterns of locomotion all shifted in Frontinella pyramitela.