Oriental spiny orb-weaver
Gasteracantha geminata
The oriental spiny orb-weaver is a spider with a hard, spiky body. Its back has black and white stripes, and three pairs of long, strong spines stick out at its sides. It lives in India and Sri Lanka.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
India and Sri Lanka, among tall shrubs and thorny bushes
What does it eat?
It catches insects that fly into its round web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Oriental spiny orb-weaver about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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
It builds round webs that stand upright in open spaces between the branches of tall bushes.
2
Both males and females have the black and white stripes.
3
The males are a bit smaller and have shorter spines.
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Most asked questions about Oriental spiny orb-weaver
?Where does the oriental spiny orb-weaver live?
In India and Sri Lanka, often in webs between the branches of tall shrubs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gasteracantha geminata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gasteracantha geminata (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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