Black-and-white spiny spider
The black-and-white spiny spider looks like a tiny shield with six black spikes. Its hard, shiny back is white or yellowish with black markings, often with a dark cross in the middle. It sits in the centre of its round web and waits.
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Fun facts
The female is 6 to 9 millimetres wide, but the male is only 3 to 4 millimetres.
The male has no spikes, just little bumps on his back.
No two look quite the same. The spikes and colours change from spider to spider.
On some Indonesian islands a very similar black-and-white spider lives in its place.
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?How big is the black-and-white spiny spider?
The female is about 6 to 9 millimetres wide, and the male only 3 to 4 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gasteracantha kuhli
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gasteracantha kuhli (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 Kramthenik27. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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