Gorse orbweaver
The gorse orbweaver is a small, very hairy spider that spins round wheel-shaped webs. Its belly is flat and wider than it is long. It can be brown, yellowish or orange, often with a dark band down the middle.
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Fun facts
It loves warmth and is one of the first spiders to be grown up in spring, already in April.
A female lays 70 to 130 eggs in early summer.
The babies are almost grown by winter. They sleep through the cold and become adults the next spring.
Females are much bigger than males, up to about 1 centimetre long.
Most asked questions about Gorse orbweaver
?Where does the gorse orbweaver live?
In sunny, open places like dry grasslands, heaths and wood edges in Europe and Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agalenatea redii
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Agalenatea redii (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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