Eastern bush orbweaver
The eastern bush orbweaver is a small Australian spider with pretty white markings on its body. It spins a round web standing straight up in tall grass and bushes. The female sits in the middle of her web day and night.
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Fun facts
Some of these spiders decorate their web with a thick band of white silk that is almost straight up and down.
Under its belly it has a white mark shaped like the letter U, with a white spot on each side.
No two look quite the same, because the white markings change a lot from spider to spider.
It builds its web low down, never much higher than 2 metres above the ground.
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?How big is the eastern bush orbweaver?
The female is about 8 millimetres long and the male only about 5 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Plebs eburnus
- Named by
- Keyserling, 1886
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Eastern grass orb-weaver, Bush orb-weaver
Where the facts come from
- Plebs eburnus (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 unknown author. CC-BY-3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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