Araneus alsine (Walckenaer, 1802) – Strawberry spider, Orange wheelweaving spider
Occurrence: Araneus alsine is common in moist meadows. It is less abundant species. In separated areas we can found the spiders close to each other.
Description: Its round abdomen is underneath dark rusty and above mostly orange with white spots. Limbs are rusty. Adult females can grow to about 12 mm.
Period of occurrence: We find the juveniles in spring. The adults occur from August to October.
Web: Araneus alsine builds a smaller web to about 25 cm above the ground. The web is strong and the spider responds to a prey soon.
But it is very timid and at a tiny distractions it flees to its nest. The signal thread is connected with a nest from a dry leaf or live twisted leaves.
During the day we find this Orb-weavers sitting on the web rarely.
Food: It hunts mainly small flying insects (e.g. planthoppers), crane flies or grasshoppers.
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photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Petr Beneš
photo: Pavel Mitro
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Václav Kroc
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Petr Beneš
photo: Petr Beneš
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Karolina Rücklová
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Kryštof Rückl
photo: Karolina Rücklová
