Two-tubercled orb-web
Gibbaranea bituberculata
The two-tubercled orb-web is a small brownish spider with whitish shades. The female has a big round tummy. It builds its round web close to the ground in sunny bushes.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Most of Europe, and parts of Asia
Length
0.6 to 1 cm (0.24 to 0.39 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects in 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 seconds⚡moves 33 times its own body length every second
How big is Two-tubercled orb-web compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Two-tubercled orb-web 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
Females are bigger than males, about 8 to 10 millimetres long.
2
It has eight eyes, and the four in the middle are quite big.
3
Its colour changes a lot from spider to spider, but it is usually brownish.
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Most asked questions about Two-tubercled orb-web
?Where does it build its web?
On bushes, edges and low plants in sunny places, near the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gibbaranea bituberculata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gibbaranea bituberculata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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