Decorative vleispider
The decorative vleispider is a pretty spider with green stripes on a white body. The back end of its body sticks out in a little point, like a tiny tail. In the daytime it hangs head down in the middle of its big round web.
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Fun facts
It builds big round webs, sometimes near water or in shady, damp places.
Near streetlights there are more of its webs, because the lights pull in lots of insects for it to catch.
In India, a mud dauber wasp likes to catch this spider to feed to its own babies.
It lives in many countries, from South Africa to Japan and Australia.
Most asked questions about Decorative vleispider
?How big is the decorative vleispider?
Females are up to 12 millimetres long. Males are only up to 6 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucauge decorata
- Named by
- Blackwall, 1864
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Decorative silver orb spider
Where the facts come from
- Leucauge decorata (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 Rushenb. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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