Silver orb spider
Leucauge dromedaria
The silver orb spider is a long-jawed spider that spins round webs. It has funny humps on its tummy, two pairs of them. The females are much bigger than the males.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific islands
Length
0.6 to 1.5 cm (0.24 to 0.59 in)
males up to 6 mm, females up to 15 mmWhat does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its round web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.4 seconds⚡moves 28 times its own body length every second
How big is Silver orb spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Silver orb spider about 1.5 km/h (0.93 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
Females grow up to 15 millimetres long, but males only to about 6 millimetres.
2
It belongs to the long-jawed orb weavers, spiders with big jaws.
3
In New Zealand it is listed as not threatened.
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Most asked questions about Silver orb spider
?Where does the silver orb spider live?
In Australia, New Zealand and some islands in the Pacific.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucauge dromedaria
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Humped silver orb spider
Where the facts come from
- Leucauge dromedaria (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 Robert Briggs. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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