#4280 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Cucumber Green Spider

🇳🇱 Gewone komkommerspin ·Araniella cucurbitina

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Mick Talbot · CC BY 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Antonio Sicuro · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Samuli Siltanen · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Thomas Gyselinck · CC BY 4.0
7. © Rui Cambraia · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Rafael Carbonell Font · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Samuli Siltanen · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Araniella cucurbitina , sometimes called the "cucumber green spider", is a spider of the family Araneidae. 16 in). The spider is mainly found on forest clearings, where it weaves its orb-web between leaves and flowers. 9 in) in diameter.

base stats

NL sightings 18iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,203iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).