Australian garden orb weaver
The Australian garden orb weaver is a big, round-bodied spider that spins large, beautiful webs at night. It can be almost white, tan, brown or nearly black, with a leaf-shaped pattern on its back. In the morning it often hides under a leaf near its web.
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Fun facts
Each time it sheds its skin, it can change its colour to better match the place where it rests.
If it is in real danger, it drops to the ground and plays dead.
It usually waits head down in the middle of its web at night.
The female is bigger than the male, up to 2.5 centimetres long.
Most asked questions about Australian garden orb weaver
?Why is there a big web in my garden every night?
Garden orb weavers build a fresh web each evening to catch insects and hide nearby during the day.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hortophora transmarina
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Australian garden orb weaver spider (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 Fir0002. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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