Bird-dropping arkys
Arkys curtulus
The bird-dropping arkys is a small spider from eastern Australia. It does not chase its food. It sits still on a leaf and waits for an insect to come close.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern Australia, on leaves
What does it eat?
It eats insects that come near its leaf. Soldier flies are one of its favourite meals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Bird-dropping arkys about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It often feasts on soldier flies.
2
Its colours change a lot from spider to spider: cream, orange, brown, black or mottled.
3
Another name for it is the small bird dropping spider.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bird-dropping arkys
?What does the bird-dropping arkys eat?
Insects that come near it, very often soldier flies.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arkys curtulus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Arkyidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Arkyidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Small bird dropping spider
Where the facts come from
- Arkys curtulus (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 Poyt448 Peter Woodard. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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