Garden tent-web spider
Cyrtophora cicatrosa
The garden tent-web spider is a small green spider with yellowish markings and long legs. It builds a thick, strong web shaped like a dome or a little tent. It hangs upside down in the middle and waits.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Many parts of Asia, in gardens and thorny bushes
What does it eat?
It eats small insects that get caught in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Garden tent-web 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 web is very strong, but the threads are not sticky.
2
When it is scared, it can turn black with white and green markings.
3
You can often see a chain of green, bean-shaped egg sacs hanging in its web.
4
Its dome web is held up by many lines and rises to a point in the middle, like a mountain.
you asked
Most asked questions about Garden tent-web spider
?What does a tent-web look like?
A thick dome or tent of silk, often between the branches of thorny plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrtophora cicatrosa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Dome spider
Where the facts come from
- Cyrtophora cicatrosa (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 arian.suresh from Chennai, India. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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