Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 601 No. 601 |
Araniella cucurbitina, sometimes called the "cucumber green spider", is a spider of the family Araneidae. Females grow up to 6 millimetres (0.24Â in), males only up to 4Â mm (0.16Â in). The spider is mainly found on forest clearings, where it weaves its orb-web between leaves and flowers. These webs are only about 100Â mm (3.9Â in) in diameter.
Ancestry Graph
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This is not intended to be a dry lexicon. Personal stories and sensitive articles form the framework for our pictures: „A song in rustling leaves“
To help us understand his world, a eurasian running crab spider has composed a brief poem.
