Versicolor long-jawed orbweaver
This little spider is long and thin, much longer than it is wide. It is dark yellow or pale orange with silvery sides. It builds a round web and hunts at night.
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Fun facts
During the day it stretches its thin body flat along a twig, so it looks just like part of the branch.
It likes very thin branches, because heavier hunters like birds and lizards have a hard time reaching it there.
It feels the tiny shakes in its web to know when an insect has been caught.
Only the spiral thread of its web is sticky. The straight spokes are not sticky at all.
Most asked questions about Versicolor long-jawed orbweaver
?How big is it?
Tiny. Males are about 5 millimetres long and females about 6.5 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetragnatha versicolor
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tetragnatha versicolor (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 promiseminime. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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