Leaf-curling spider
The leaf-curling spider is a red-brown spider with a cream pattern on its round back. It rolls a dry leaf into a little tube and hangs it in the middle of its web. Then it hides inside, with only the tips of its legs poking out.
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Fun facts
If there is no leaf around, it may use an old snail shell or a piece of paper as its hideout.
A boy spider and a girl spider sometimes share one rolled leaf, each at one end.
Its web is about 30 centimetres wide and open at the top, like a fan.
It often rebuilds its web at night.
The baby spiders start by rolling small green leaves and move to bigger dead leaves as they grow.
Most asked questions about Leaf-curling spider
?Why is there a leaf in the spider web?
It is the leaf-curling spider's hideout. It rolls a leaf into a tube to hide from birds.
?How big is the leaf-curling spider?
Females are about 1 centimetre long, and males are about half that size.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phonognatha graeffei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Phonognatha graeffei (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 Mjoyce. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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