#4241 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Conical Trashline Orbweaver

🇳🇱 Kegelspin ·Cyclosa conica

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

1. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Biopix · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
7. Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park, Leersum, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Landgoederenzone Wassenaar-Voorschoten-Leidschendam-Voorburg, Wassenaar, South Holland, NL:© Laurel J. Ramseyer · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 1761 CX Anna Paulowna, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cyclosa conica is a small spider with no common name. It is an orb weaver, and it is easily recognized by the way it strings together the dead bodies of insects and other debris and hangs it near the center of its web. It hides on this string of debris, and its natural coloration makes it extremely difficult to see until it moves. One of its defenses against predators is to blend in with this debris...

base stats

NL sightings 56iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,034iNaturalist 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).