Leucauge blanda
Long confused with several nearly identical relatives, this orb weaver can be told apart from them only by tiny tubercles on the male's abdomen.
| Where | Grasslands and fields across East Asia |
|---|---|
| Size | Female 6 to 10 mm, male 9 to 13 mm body length |
| When | January to December |
The female has a brownish yellow cephalothorax edged with narrow black margins, and a silvery yellowish white abdomen marked with two brown spots near the base and three brown stripes running back toward the spinnerets.
It favors open grassland and fields rather than forest, where males build a web tilted at an angle among grass stems; across East Asia adults are most often seen from summer into autumn.
Traits
Habitat
Grassland
Colour
Yellow, White, Brown
Active
Day and night
To people
Not dangerous to people; if found on its slanted web among grass or shrubs it can simply be left alone.
Activity through the year
Often confused with
This long-jawed orb weaver has a much more elongated, stick-like body than the rounder, silvery abdomen of Leucauge blanda, even though both spin similar webs across the same East Asian range.
Questions
Is Leucauge blanda dangerous to people?
Not dangerous to people; if found on its slanted web among grass or shrubs it can simply be left alone.
When can you see Leucauge blanda?
Leucauge blanda can be seen from January to December, by day and at night.
Plate retouched from a photo by Rainer Breitling, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist Licence
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