Missing sector orb-weaver
The missing sector orb-weaver builds a round web with one slice left empty, like a pizza with a piece missing. Through that empty slice runs a single thread to its hiding place. It loves window frames, walls and fences.
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Fun facts
When an insect gets stuck, the spider feels the signal thread shake and runs down it to grab its meal.
Up to 25 of these spiders can live on one square metre of wall, each in its own web.
Young spiders build a brand new web every single day.
Its belly shines silver because of tiny crystals under its skin.
It is often found on boats and docks too.
Most asked questions about Missing sector orb-weaver
?Why is there a gap in the spider web?
The missing sector orb-weaver leaves one slice of its web empty, with only a signal thread running through it.
?Where can I find a missing sector orb-weaver?
On window frames, walls, fences and bushes near houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zygiella x-notata
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Australia and Oceania, North America, South America, Africa
- Also known as
- Silver-sided sector spider
Where the facts come from
- Zygiella x-notata (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 Alexis Lours. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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