Silver long-jawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha laboriosa
The silver long-jawed orbweaver is a spider with long jaws and a silvery body. It spins a round web to catch flying insects. It lives in North and Central America.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North and Central America
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in its round web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Silver long-jawed 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
It is most busy at dawn and dusk, when the light is low.
2
The males and females meet up at night.
3
As it grows, it sheds its skin again and again. It goes through nine stages, and the last one is the grown-up.
you asked
Most asked questions about Silver long-jawed orbweaver
?What does the silver long-jawed orbweaver eat?
Small flying insects that get stuck in its round web.
?Where does the silver long-jawed orbweaver live?
In North and Central America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetragnatha laboriosa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Silver longjawed orbweaver
Where the facts come from
- Tetragnatha laboriosa (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 RickP. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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