Angular orbweaver spider
The angular orbweaver spider looks a lot like the common garden spider, but it has two pointy bumps on its body. It builds a big round web between bushes and trees. It has a very special place in science history, too.
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Fun facts
It was the very first animal described in a 1757 book about Swedish spiders, so its scientific name is the oldest animal name still in use.
Its web has no hiding place, so the spider sits right in the middle and waits.
One was seen at a country fair, not bothered at all by crowds, music and fireworks.
In Britain it is rare and lives only near the south coast of England.
Most asked questions about Angular orbweaver spider
?How can you tell it from a garden spider?
It has pointy bumps on its body, and it sits in the middle of its web instead of hiding.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araneus angulatus
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Araneus angulatus (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 Thomas Kraft ( ThKraft ). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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