Black-striped orchard spider
Leucauge celebesiana
The black-striped orchard spider is a colourful little spider. Its body is white with yellow-green sides, and black stripes run between the colours and right down the middle. It builds a round web that leans to one side.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From India to China and Japan, and south to Sulawesi and New Guinea
Length
1.3 cm (0.51 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in its web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.6 seconds⚡moves 30 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)
Black-striped orchard spider about 1.4 km/h (0.87 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 body, without the legs, is about 13 millimetres long.
2
Its web is not straight up and down but tilted, like a slide.
3
Often several of these spiders build their webs close together.
4
In Japan there is a very similar spider, so you have to look closely to tell them apart.
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Most asked questions about Black-striped orchard spider
?How big is the black-striped orchard spider?
Its body is about 13 millimetres long, not counting the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucauge celebesiana
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Leucauge celebesiana (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 Phonon.b. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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