Oak spider
The oak spider has a picture of an oak leaf on its back. That makes it easy to recognise. It builds a round web low between plants and waits there, head down, very patiently.
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Fun facts
The female is about twice as long as the male.
It can live high in the mountains, up to 3600 metres above the sea.
Its web hangs only about half a metre to one and a half metres above the ground.
The female lays her eggs in early autumn, usually on the bark of a tree.
Its scientific name ceropegia is also the name of a group of plants.
Most asked questions about Oak spider
?Why is it called the oak spider?
Because the pattern on its back looks like an oak leaf.
?How big is the oak spider?
Males are about 6 to 8 millimetres long, females 15 to 17 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aculepeira ceropegia
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Aculepeira ceropegia (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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