Orchard spider
The orchard spider is one of the prettiest spiders around. It has leaf green legs and sides, a silvery back with dark streaks, and often bright yellow, orange or red spots near its back end. It hangs upside down in the middle of its flat, round web.
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Fun facts
Its web usually lies flat like a table top, not standing up like most round webs.
Its colours can change from spider to spider. Some have dark green or even orange legs, and some have no bright spots at all.
A tiny wasp larva sometimes rides on its back, right where the two body parts meet, and feeds on it.
Most asked questions about Orchard spider
?What does the orchard spider look like?
It has green legs and sides, a silvery back with dark streaks and often bright coloured spots at the back.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucauge venusta
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1842
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Asia
- Also known as
- Orchard orbweaver
Where the facts come from
- Leucauge venusta (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 Kaldari. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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