Stats

Lifespan

Annual

Size

Medium

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

The Americas

Movement

Climbing

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Uncommon

About

This orb weaver spider builds large, circular webs across forests from the US to Brazil. It consumes its entire silk web every single morning before dawn to recycle the proteins.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Araneidae

Genus

Eriophora

Species

Eriophora ravilla