Green orbweb spider
Colaranea viriditas
The green orbweb spider lives only in New Zealand. Most of its round back is bright green, while its legs are brown. It is an orb weaver, a spider that spins round webs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Only in New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands
Length
5.2 to 5.7 mm (0.2 to 0.22 in)
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its round, sticky web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4 seconds⚡moves 44 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Green orbweb spider about 0.91 km/h (0.57 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 female is about 5.7 millimetres long and the male about 5.2 millimetres.
2
It is found all over New Zealand, even on the faraway Chatham Islands.
3
It is not threatened. There are plenty of them.
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Most asked questions about Green orbweb spider
?Where does the green orbweb spider live?
Only in New Zealand, where it is found all over the country.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colaranea viriditas
- Named by
- Urquhart, 1887
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Colaranea viriditas (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 Jacob Littlejohn. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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