Grass neoscona spider
Neoscona moreli
The grass neoscona spider is a round-web spider that loves grassland. It is very common in southern Africa. It spins its web at night and takes it down again early in the morning.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Africa, and also found in Cuba and Argentina, in grassland, fields and orchards
What does it eat?
It catches insects that fly into its round web at night.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Grass neoscona 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
It lives in all nine provinces of South Africa.
2
It has been found from near the seashore up to more than 2,000 metres high.
3
Farmers find it in fields of maize, cotton and tomatoes, and in avocado and pecan orchards.
4
It was first described from the island of Réunion in 1863.
you asked
Most asked questions about Grass neoscona spider
?When does the grass neoscona spider make its web?
At night. It takes the web down again early in the morning.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona moreli
- Named by
- Vinson, 1863
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa, North America, South America
- Also known as
- Morel's grass Neoscona orb-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona moreli (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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