Common hairy field spider
The common hairy field spider is a medium-sized spider that spins round webs. It builds its web at night, when insects are flying. Early in the morning it takes the web down again and rests on a plant.
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Fun facts
In South Africa it is very common and lives in every one of the nine provinces.
It lives from the seaside all the way up to 2,826 metres high in the mountains.
Farmers often find it in orange and lemon orchards, vineyards and cotton fields.
It was first described in 1837 from a spider found in Greece.
Sometimes it rests on the bark of trees.
Most asked questions about Common hairy field spider
?What does the common hairy field spider eat?
Insects that get stuck in its web at night.
?How big is the common hairy field spider?
Its body is about 4.5 to 10.5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona subfusca
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Common Neoscona orb-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona subfusca (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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