White-winged orbweaver spider
Araneus albotriangulus
Name means: “named after the white wing-shaped marks on its back”
The white-winged orbweaver is a small spider from Australia. On its round back it has pale marks that look like a pair of little wings. It spins its web in bushes and shrubs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern Australia and Tasmania, in bushes and shrubs
What does it eat?
Like other orbweavers, it catches small insects that get stuck in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White-winged orbweaver 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 a loose tangle of threads, not the neat round wheel that many other orbweavers make.
2
It leaves its fluffy white egg sacs out in the open near the web instead of hiding them.
3
The wing marks are easy to see on females, but on males they are much harder to spot.
4
Before it got its name today, scientists called it by two other names.
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Most asked questions about White-winged orbweaver spider
?Where does the white-winged orbweaver live?
In eastern Australia, from Queensland down to Tasmania, where it builds webs in shrubs and bushes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araneus albotriangulus
- Named by
- Keyserling, 1887
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- White-winged orbweaver
Where the facts come from
- White-winged orbweaver (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 Jean-Paul Boerekamps. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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