Red-backed orbweaver
Araneus guttulatus
The red-backed orbweaver is a small spider with green legs and a reddish brown back end. Its back has little white marks on it. Like other orb weavers, it spins a round web shaped like a wheel.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern United States and eastern Canada
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its sticky wheel-shaped web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Red-backed orbweaver 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
Its legs and front part are usually green, while its back end is reddish brown.
2
It builds a round web with threads that go out like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
3
It lives in the eastern United States, as far west as Oklahoma, and in eastern Canada.
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Most asked questions about Red-backed orbweaver
?What does the red-backed orbweaver look like?
It has green legs and a reddish brown back end with white marks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araneus guttulatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Araneus guttulatus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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