Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona arabesca
The arabesque orbweaver is a small spider with bright, swirly patterns on its round back. It builds a big round web. At night the female sits in the middle, and in the daytime she hides in a rolled-up leaf.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
All over North America, in fields, forests, gardens and on buildings
Length
5 to 7 mm (0.2 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It catches insects that fly into its web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.6 seconds⚡moves 40 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Arabesque orbweaver about 1 km/h (0.62 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 up to 45 centimetres across, as wide as a big pizza box.
2
The female ties a leaf into a little tube and uses it as her daytime hiding place.
3
The males are often found on leaves near the web or hunting on the ground.
4
Its name comes from the swirly, colourful markings on its back.
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Most asked questions about Arabesque orbweaver
?How big is the arabesque orbweaver?
Its body is only about 5 to 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona arabesca
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona arabesca (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 Bruce Marlin. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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