Orange-and-black pear spider
Leucauge fastigata
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
This spider has very long legs and a body shaped like a little pear. Its body is decorated with shiny silver or golden spots. It spins a big, round web that lies flat, like a net spread out between the leaves.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From India to the Philippines and Sulawesi
What does it eat?
It catches small insects that fly or fall into its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Orange-and-black pear spider 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
Its flat web can be more than one metre across.
2
The whole web often hangs from several long silk lines tied to nearby branches and leaves.
3
Its web has no hiding corner, so the spider sits out in the open.
4
It is the only spider in its group with a thick brush of spines on its fourth leg.
you asked
Most asked questions about Orange-and-black pear spider
?How big is the web of the pear spider?
It can be more than one metre across, and it lies flat like a table top.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucauge fastigata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Pear-shaped leucauge
Where the facts come from
- Leucauge fastigata (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 Halenhardy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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