Green huntsman spider
The green huntsman spider is as green as fresh grass. It does not build a web. Instead it creeps through the leaves and hunts, and its colour makes it almost invisible.
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Fun facts
Its green colour comes from a special green substance in its blood and body.
The male is not bright green like the female. He is dark olive green with red sides on his belly.
Young spiders are yellow brown at first and only turn green after their last skin change in spring.
The mother stitches a few leaves together to make a nest for her egg sac and guards it.
About 40 to 50 baby spiders hatch after around four weeks.
Most asked questions about Green huntsman spider
?Does the green huntsman spider make a web?
No. It hunts by sneaking through green plants instead.
?How big is a green huntsman spider?
Females are about 12 to 16 millimetres long, males about 7 to 10.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micrommata virescens
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Sparassidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Emerald spider
Where the facts come from
- Micrommata virescens (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 Luc Viatour. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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