Humped trashline orbweaver
Cyclosa turbinata
Name means: “spinning top”
The humped trashline orbweaver is a small brown, black and white spider with a body shaped like a spinning top. Trashline spiders decorate their round web with a line of rubbish, like old prey and bits of leaves. The spider sits in that line and looks like just another piece of trash.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From the United States to Panama, the West Indies and the Galapagos, and brought to Hawaii
Length
2.5 to 5.2 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects in its round web, mostly at night.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.1 seconds⚡moves 46 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)
Humped trashline orbweaver about 0.87 km/h (0.54 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
When an enemy comes near, it plays dead, especially in the daytime.
2
Baby spiders travel on the wind, floating on silk threads.
3
Wasps are its main enemies.
4
It is very common along forest edges and fences.
you asked
Most asked questions about Humped trashline orbweaver
?Why is it called a trashline spider?
It puts a line of old prey and rubbish in its web and hides among it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclosa turbinata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cyclosa turbinata (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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