Zilla orbweaver
Zilla diodia
The Zilla orbweaver is a small spider that spins very fine round webs. Its webs stand upright and have lots of spokes, often more than 50. It lives in Europe and as far east as Azerbaijan.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe to Azerbaijan, among bushes and plants
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in its sticky web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Zilla orbweaver about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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
The spokes of its web are doubled near the edge and single near the middle.
2
Scientists think the double spokes make the outer part of the web stronger.
3
It was first named Aranea diodia in 1802.
you asked
Most asked questions about Zilla orbweaver
?What is special about its web?
It is very fine, with more than 50 spokes that are doubled at the outer edge.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zilla diodia
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1802
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Zilla diodia (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 Michael Hohner ( Mhohner ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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