Biscuit boxkite
Isoxya tabulata
The biscuit boxkite is a spider from central and southern Africa. It builds a big round web high up between trees and decorates it with little tufts of silk.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Central and southern Africa, in big webs between trees
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its big round web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Biscuit boxkite 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 lives in many kinds of places: forests, grassland, savanna, thickets and near the coast.
2
It has even been found in orange and lemon orchards and in tomato fields.
3
It lives in famous wildlife parks such as Kruger National Park, where it is protected.
4
It looks very much like one of its close cousins, so it can be hard to tell them apart.
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Most asked questions about Biscuit boxkite
?Where does the biscuit boxkite live?
In central and southern Africa, for example in South Africa, Tanzania, Angola and Malawi.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Isoxya tabulata
- Named by
- Thorell, 1859
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Yellow Isoxya box kite spider
Where the facts come from
- Isoxya tabulata (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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