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Giant golden orb-weaver

Nephila pilipes

名字的由來： The name refers to the golden-yellow silk of its web, which gives the group the name golden orb-weavers.1

無害對人無害。不用擔心。

蜘蛛

咬吃：肉

對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

The giant golden orb-weaver is a large spider found across East and Southeast Asia and in Oceania. Adult females have bodies up to 50 mm long, while the males are tiny by comparison. Its big, yellowish webs are often seen in forests and against buildings.1

分布在

East and Southeast Asia, South Asia (including India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan), Papua New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia1

亞洲, 澳洲與大洋洲

首頁

It prefers moist places with no direct sunlight, such as forests, rainforests and coastal areas. It builds webs in bushes and trees, near surface water, and against buildings and other structures.1

長度

5 cm (2 in)1

最高速度

大約 2,7 km/h（1,7 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It mainly catches insects in its web. Small prey are caught and removed directly, while larger prey are injected with venom and left to wait. Surplus prey is wrapped in silk and stored in the hub of the web for times of food shortage.1

Giant golden orb-weaver 的照片 — Giant golden orb-weaver。照片：Charles J. Sharp。 CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Adult females are very large, with a body length of 25 to 50 mm.1
The abdomen is mostly dark yellow-brown with yellow stripes.1
The legs are long and black and yellow.1
Females have a horn-like bulge on the back of the body (tergum).1
Males are tiny, measuring about 4 to 6 mm, with light brown legs.1

常被誤認為： Trichonephila clavata has no horn-like bulge on its back, which the giant golden orb-weaver does have. Nephila laurinae lacks the pair of yellow stripes at the back of the abdomen that this species has.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

如果牠咬人

清洗咬傷處，用冰敷袋冰敷止痛。如果很痛、疼痛擴散或傷者覺得不舒服，要就醫。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

比你的小指頭還短可以在 130 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Giant golden orb-weaver 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Giant golden orb-weaver 大約 2,7 km/h (1,7 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Its silk is more robust than most human-made materials, which has drawn attention from materials scientists.1

Males can be 4 to 10 times smaller than the females, one of the biggest size differences among land animals.1

Adult females keep growing by moulting after they mature, which most spiders do not do.1

Females do not shed their genitals when they moult, so they can keep collecting sperm.1

When temperatures rise above 40 °C, it will abandon its web.1

給毒液專家

學名: Nephila pilipes
類群: 蜘蛛
家人: Nephilidae2
排序: Araneae
各大洲: 亞洲, 澳洲與大洋洲
寶寶: Females do not hang egg sacs in the web. Instead they dig a pit, lay eggs in it and cover it with plant debris or soil. Adult females lay eggs continuously.1
對人的危險: 1 / 5: 輕微3