Red-femured spotted orbweaver
The red-femured spotted orbweaver has a bright white or yellow cross shaped mark on its back. The first part of each leg is red, and the rest is striped black and grey. It often lives on houses.
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Fun facts
Its name domiciliorum means of houses in Latin, because it often lives on buildings.
Its web can be 50 centimetres across.
It builds a new web at dusk and usually takes it down again before morning.
During the day it hides in a little shelter of leaves tied together with silk.
Most asked questions about Red-femured spotted orbweaver
?Where does the spotted orbweaver live?
In the southeastern United States, in woods and under the eaves of houses.
?How big is the spotted orbweaver?
Females are about 7 to 16 millimetres long, males about 8 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona domiciliorum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Spotted orbweaver
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona domiciliorum (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 Sesamehoneytart. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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