Dome web spider
The dome web spider builds a web shaped like a dome or a bowl, made of very fine mesh. Its web is not sticky, and it can last for weeks. The females are yellow to green and have two little bumps on their tall bodies.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Most spiders make a new web every day, but its strong dome web can last several weeks.
Sometimes hundreds of these spiders live together. One colony can have over 400 spiders on 15 square metres.
Even in a big group, every spider guards its own web.
Young spiders often build their webs inside the space of their parent's web.
Other little spiders sometimes move into its web as uninvited guests.
Most asked questions about Dome web spider
?Why is it called the dome web spider?
Because its web is shaped like a dome or a bowl instead of a flat wheel.
?Do dome web spiders live alone?
Sometimes alone, but often in big colonies of hundreds of spiders, each with its own web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrtophora moluccensis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Tent spider
Where the facts come from
- Cyrtophora moluccensis (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 Toby Hudson. CC BY-SA 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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