White micrathena
Micrathena mitrata
The white micrathena is a small orb weaver spider from America. It has a shiny body and spiky yellowish brown legs. It builds a neat round web low to the ground to catch insects.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, from Canada and the eastern United States south to Brazil
Length
3 to 9 mm (0.12 to 0.35 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects in its 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
How big is White micrathena compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White micrathena 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 is 4 to 9 millimetres long, while the male is only 3 to 4.
2
To say hello, a male taps on the female's web to get her attention.
3
It likes woods near streams, but it can also live in fields and meadows.
4
Its legs are covered in sensing hairs and little spines.
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Most asked questions about White micrathena
?Where does the white micrathena build its web?
Low to the ground, often near shrubs or trees in woods close to water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micrathena mitrata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Micrathena mitrata (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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