Red tent spider
The red tent spider lives in warm parts of Asia. The female is big and bright red, while the male is small and pale. Instead of a flat round web, it builds a big web shaped like a tent among the plants.
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Its web is three-dimensional, which means it goes up, down and sideways like a tent, not flat like a wheel.
The female and the male look so different that you might think they are two different spiders.
It lives in many countries, including Singapore, China, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and India.
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?How big is the red tent spider?
The female is about 17 to 20 millimetres long. The male is much smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrtophora unicolor
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cyrtophora unicolor (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 Andrews, Charles William; British Museum (Natural History).. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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