Humped orbweb spider
Gibbaranea gibbosa
The humped orbweb spider is a small spider with little humps on its back. It is patterned in brown and green, just like the leaves it hides in. That makes it really hard to spot.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa, on trees and bushes
Length
7 mm (0.28 in)
females, at mostWhat does it eat?
It builds a round web and eats the small insects that get stuck in it.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.6 seconds⚡moves 40 times its own body length every second
How big is Humped orbweb spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Humped orbweb spider about 1 km/h (0.62 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 bumps on its back are called tubercles. They give the spider its name.
2
It likes evergreen bushes that keep their leaves all winter.
3
It lives in woods and in hedgerows, the long rows of bushes along fields and roads.
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Most asked questions about Humped orbweb spider
?How big is the humped orbweb spider?
A female is at most about 7 millimetres long, smaller than your fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gibbaranea gibbosa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Gibbaranea gibbosa (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 This image is created by user Wim Rubers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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