Banded-legged golden orb-web spider
Trichonephila senegalensis
The banded-legged golden orb-web spider is an African spider with striped legs. It builds a huge round web. The sticky threads of its web shine golden yellow.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Africa, from West Africa to Ethiopia and all over South Africa
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its big sticky web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Banded-legged golden orb-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 can be 1 to 1.5 metres wide, as wide as a grown-up is tall.
2
The sticky spiral of its web is a golden yellow colour.
3
It lives in almost every kind of place in South Africa except the deserts.
4
It is found from low near the sea to high up in the hills.
you asked
Most asked questions about Banded-legged golden orb-web spider
?How big is its web?
Very big. Its round web can be 1 to 1.5 metres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichonephila senegalensis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Trichonephila senegalensis (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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