Bordered orbweaver
Neoscona adianta
The bordered orbweaver is a small spider with a brown to red tummy. On its back is a row of white triangles with black borders, like a pretty pattern on a sweater. It builds a round web among flower heads.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North Africa and Europe to Central Asia, among flowers in meadows
Length
9 mm (0.35 in)
females; males are smallerWhat does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in its round sticky web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 34 times its own body length every second
How big is Bordered orbweaver compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Bordered orbweaver about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It sits in full view next to its web on a little cushion of silk.
2
The male is quite a bit smaller than the female.
3
It likes to hang its web between flower heads, where many insects come to visit.
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Most asked questions about Bordered orbweaver
?Where does the bordered orbweaver build its web?
Usually among flower heads, while it waits beside the web on a silk pad.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona adianta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona adianta (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 Hans Hillewaert. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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