Cucumber green spider
The cucumber green spider is a small spider with a bright green body, just like a little cucumber. It has a red spot at the very end of its tummy. It is so well hidden among the leaves that it does not even need a hiding place.
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Fun facts
Its web is small, only about 10 centimetres across, with 15 to 30 spokes.
Baby spiders are red when they hatch, and turn brown before autumn.
It waits for its food sitting right in the middle of its web.
The mother sticks her egg sacs to the underside of leaves.
There is another spider that looks almost exactly the same. Scientists need a microscope to tell them apart.
Most asked questions about Cucumber green spider
?Why is it called the cucumber green spider?
Because its body is bright green, the colour of a cucumber.
?Where do cucumber green spiders live?
In bushes, hedges and low plants in Europe and Asia, where their green colour hides them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araniella cucurbitina
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Araniella cucurbitina (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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