Batik golden web spider
Trichonephila antipodiana
Name means: “from the Antipodes, because it lives in the southern half of the world”
The batik golden web spider is a big spider that spins huge webs of golden silk. The female is much, much bigger than the male. Her long legs are pale near the body and almost black at the tips.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
China, South-east Asia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland, in gardens and near mangroves
Length
0.8 to 3 cm (0.31 to 1.2 in)
females are much bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its big golden web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 1.7 seconds
How big is Batik golden web spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Batik golden web spider about 2.1 km/h (1.3 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 silk contains special chemicals that keep ants away from the web.
2
Females are over 3 centimetres long, while males are only 8 to 9 millimetres.
3
Its webs are large and can stay up for a long time.
4
It is found more often in gardens and at the edges of mangrove swamps than deep in forests.
you asked
Most asked questions about Batik golden web spider
?Why is its web golden?
Golden orb-weaver spiders spin silk that really has a golden colour.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichonephila antipodiana
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1841
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Trichonephila antipodiana (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 atheist. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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