Ornamental orbweaver
Larinioides patagiatus
The ornamental orbweaver is a spider that spins a round web shaped like a wheel. It lives in many countries, from Europe across Asia to Japan, and in North America too. It waits for insects to fly into its sticky web.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, Europe, Turkey and across Asia to China, Mongolia and Japan
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its sticky round web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Ornamental 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 belongs to the orb weavers, the family of spiders that build round wheel webs.
2
It lives on three continents: North America, Europe and Asia.
3
It was named by the Swedish spider expert Carl Clerck back in 1757.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ornamental orbweaver
?What does the ornamental orbweaver eat?
Flying insects that get stuck in its round web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Larinioides patagiatus
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Larinioides patagiatus (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 Sanja565658. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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