Tiger spider
The tiger spider is a big golden orb weaver with stripes and spots that look a bit like a tiger. The female has a black front covered in silver hairs and brushes of stiff black hair on her legs. Its web shines like gold.
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Fun facts
The male is tiny. He can be less than one tenth of the size of the female.
Its web stays up for a long time, it does not build a new one each night.
It actually does better in cities, where it is warmer and there are more insects.
Some of its silk looks golden to us, and some looks white or silver.
Most asked questions about Tiger spider
?How big is the tiger spider?
A female's body can be up to about 3.5 centimetres long, but the male is only about half a centimetre.
?Why is it called a tiger spider?
Because its stripes and spots look a bit like a tiger's.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichonephila plumipes
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
- Also known as
- Pacific golden orb weaver
Where the facts come from
- Trichonephila plumipes (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 Karora. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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