Giant golden orb-weaver
The giant golden orb-weaver is one of the biggest web-spinning spiders in the world. The female has a long yellow-brown body and very long black and yellow legs. Her golden web hangs in forests and near water, and the tiny male is so small you might not even spot him.
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Fun facts
No other land animal has such a big size difference between males and females. A male can be 4 to 10 times smaller than the female.
It is the second biggest orb-weaving spider in the world.
Instead of hanging her egg sac in the web, the mother digs a little pit and covers it with soil or leaves.
The middle of its web is usually near the top, not in the centre.
The female keeps shedding her skin and growing even after she is grown up.
Most asked questions about Giant golden orb-weaver
?How big is a giant golden orb-weaver?
Females are about 2.5 to 5 centimetres long, without the legs. Males are only about half a centimetre.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nephila pilipes
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Northern golden orb weaver
Where the facts come from
- Nephila pilipes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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