Australian golden orbweaver
The Australian golden orbweaver is a large spider that builds a huge round web, about one metre across. The female is giant compared to the tiny male. She has a black front body with a white pattern and a grey to brown back end.
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Its web is about as wide as a small child is tall, and it builds extra barrier webs beside it for protection.
A female can be 40 millimetres long, but a male is only about 7 millimetres.
A mother lays about 380 eggs on average.
It was the second Australian spider ever described by a European scientist, back in 1799.
Its scientific name means edible, because people in New Caledonia used to eat it.
Most asked questions about Australian golden orbweaver
?How big is the golden orb weaver's web?
About 1 metre across, with extra barrier webs on the sides.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichonephila edulis
- Named by
- Labillardière, 1799
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Nephilidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Nephilidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Trichonephila edulis (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 SeanMack. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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