Carmine orbweaver
Cercidia prominens
The carmine orbweaver is a tiny spider in a bright orange-red coat. Its legs are orange too, and it has a few dark spots on its back. It is only a few millimetres long.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, Europe and Asia from the Caucasus to Kazakhstan
Length
3.6 to 5.4 mm (0.14 to 0.21 in)
What does it eat?
Like other orbweavers, it catches small insects in its web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.1 seconds⚡moves 45 times its own body length every second
How big is Carmine orbweaver compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Carmine orbweaver about 0.88 km/h (0.55 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
The scientist who first described it called the colour of its body brick red.
2
Females are a little bigger than males.
3
The female has four dark spots near the front of her back.
4
Its group first got a name that was already used for a kind of crustacean, so scientists had to make up a new one.
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Most asked questions about Carmine orbweaver
?How big is the carmine orbweaver?
Very small, about 4 to 5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cercidia prominens
- Named by
- Westring, 1851
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cercidia prominens (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 Sanja565658. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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