Ornamental tree trunk spider
The ornamental tree trunk spider is a flat, speckled spider that lives on tree trunks and walls. Its grey and brown dappled colours make it almost invisible against the bark. It sits head-down in its little web, with its legs bent, waiting.
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Fun facts
Its web is built flat against the bark or wall, and the middle is shaped like a little silk cup.
As the spider grows, its round web stretches into a long ladder shape.
Its back has five pairs of small dents, where muscles are attached inside.
It likes living near people and has spread to new countries.
Most asked questions about Ornamental tree trunk spider
?Where does the ornamental tree trunk spider live?
On tree trunks and walls of buildings in tropical Asia.
?How big is the ornamental tree trunk spider?
The female is about 1 to 1.4 centimetres long. The male is about half that size.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Herennia multipuncta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Nephilidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Nephilidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Spotted coin spider
Where the facts come from
- Herennia multipuncta (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 Kuntner M, Coddington JA. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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