Slender green orbweaver
Araneus talipedatus
The slender green orbweaver is a thin green spider from Australia. It spins a round web shaped like a wheel. Unlike many web spiders, it is busy during the day, so you might spot it in the sunshine.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Many parts of Australia
Length
7 to 9 mm (0.28 to 0.35 in)
females are bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It catches small insects that fly into its round web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 34 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Slender green orbweaver about 1.1 km/h (0.68 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
The female grows up to about 9 millimetres long, and the male only up to about 7 millimetres.
2
Long hairs grow on its legs and on the two little feelers next to its mouth.
3
It belongs to the orb weavers, a big family of spiders that build round, wheel-shaped webs.
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Most asked questions about Slender green orbweaver
?Where does the slender green orbweaver live?
In many parts of Australia, where it builds a round web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araneus talipedatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Slender green orb-weaver spider
Where the facts come from
- Araneus talipedatus (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 Russell Best. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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