Spotted orb-weaver
The spotted orb-weaver is a hairy brown, rusty red or golden orange spider with striped legs. Under its body it has two white spots on black. At night it spins a big wheel-shaped web, often near an outdoor lamp.
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Fun facts
The female builds a new web every night and eats it again in the morning, so she can use the silk again.
Its web can be almost 60 centimetres across.
It likes to build near lights, because the light attracts the flying insects it eats.
It finds trapped insects by feeling the web shake.
One egg sac can hold up to 1,000 eggs, wrapped in fluffy yellow silk inside a rolled-up leaf.
Most asked questions about Spotted orb-weaver
?Why does the spotted orb-weaver eat its web?
It eats the old silk each morning so it can use it again to make a new web at night.
?How big is a spotted orb-weaver?
Females are about 9.5 to 19 millimetres long, and males are a bit smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona crucifera
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Hentz orbweaver, Barn spider
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona crucifera (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 Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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