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Golden silk orb-weaver

Trichonephila clavipes
Davart il num: The scientific name clavipes is Latin for "club-footed", from the knotted tufts of hair on the female's legs.1
NunprivlusNunprivlus per umans. Nagut da far quitads.
Filiens MorsasMangia: Insects
Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

The golden silk orb-weaver is a large spider with silk that shines golden in sunlight. It lives in forests and wooded areas from the southern United States to Argentina. It is special because its silk is studied by scientists, and because it is one of the largest non-tarantula spiders in North America.1

Viva en
Southern USA through Central America and the Antilles to Argentina1
America dal Nord, America dal Sid
Pagina iniziala
It lives in forests and wooded areas, building its large webs between trees and low shrubs. It can also live in urban areas, and hikers may meet it in woods.1
Lunghezza
4 cm (1,6 in)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 1,7 km/h (1,1 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It catches small and medium-sized flying insects in its large web. It subdues prey by injecting venom, unlike related species that wrap prey in silk first.1
Propi!Foto da Golden silk orb-weaver
Golden silk orb-weaver. Foto: Reinaldo de Oliveira Elias. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • Females have a silvery white front body (cephalothorax) and a longer orange-brown abdomen with two rows of small white-yellow spots.1
  • Females have dark yellow and brown banding on their legs, with black brush-like tufts of hair near the joints of the first, second and fourth leg pairs.1
  • Females are about 24 to 40 mm long when fully grown.1
  • Males are much smaller, about 6 mm long, with a plain dark brown body and legs.1
  • The large webs are circular and vertical, and the yellow pigment in the silk gives them a golden glow in good light.1

Savens confundì cun: Trichonephila plumipes also has stiff hairs on its legs. In that species the hairs are set more closely together than in the golden silk orb-weaver.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom has low toxicity. It is relatively harmless and poses little health concern to healthy adult humans.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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It is not known to be aggressive towards humans. It bites only in self-defence if it is touched, and its venom poses little health concern to healthy adults.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It bites only in self-defence if it is touched.1

Sch'el morda

  • Lava la morsa e metta in pachet da glatsch sin ella cunter las dolurs. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche las dolurs èn fermas, sa derasan u sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Golden silk orb-weaver circa 4 cm lung (1,6 in)In clip da palpiri circa 3 cm (1,2 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)
var uschè lung sco in clip da palpiripudess currer 100 meters en 210 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Golden silk orb-weaver cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

Its silk may help in surgeries involving the nervous system, as shown in past experimental studies.1

2

It produces seven different types of silk, and its silk is valued in spider silk research.1

3

Its genome was the first of the orb-weaving spiders to be completely annotated, revealing 28 unique genes for spider silk proteins.1

4

Some individuals living in developed areas have grown significantly larger than their rural counterparts.1

5

Males rarely suffer sexual cannibalism or genital mutilation, unlike males of many related species, which makes it a focus of study into spider mating.1

6

Females are some of the largest non-tarantula spiders in North America, and may be the largest orb-weaver species native to the United States.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: The golden silk orb-weaver is an aggressive spider that attacks people.

Vardad: It is not known to be aggressive towards humans. It bites only in self-defence if it is touched.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Trichonephila clavipes
Gruppa
Filiens
Famiglia
Nephilidae2
Urden
Araneae
Continents
America dal Nord, America dal Sid
Privel per umans
1 / 5: Lev3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Trichonephila clavipes (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Trichonephila clavipes (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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