Enamelled spider
The enamelled spider is a common orb-weaving spider from eastern Australia. Its round back is so shiny that it looks like it has been painted with glossy enamel. Some are a pure jade green.
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Fun facts
It hunts in its web at night and often hides in nearby plants during the day.
It builds a sloping round web about one metre above the ground.
Its colours change from one part of Australia to another, and in some places different colour forms live side by side.
Its egg sac is round and made of woolly red brown silk, and each egg is only 1 millimetre wide.
Most asked questions about Enamelled spider
?What does the enamelled spider eat?
Small flying insects caught in its web.
?When is the enamelled spider active?
At night. In the day it usually hides in plants near its web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Plebs bradleyi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Plebs bradleyi (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. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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