#4377 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Common Hairy Field Spider

Neoscona subfusca

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

1. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
3. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Marco Vicariotto · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Andrés E. Ríos Saldaña · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Caddebostan, 34728 Kadıköy/İstanbul, Türkiye:© Fikret Arda Düzgünses · CC BY 4.0
8. New Holme & Mieliefonten Guest Farm, Hanover, Hanover Road, 7005, South Africa:© Rudolph Steenkamp · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Stațiunea Zoologică Marină Agigea, România:© Alexandru Pintilioaie · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 13380 Plan-de-Cuques, France:© Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Neoscona subfusca is a species of spider in the family Araneidae. It is commonly known as the common Neoscona orb-web spider .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,681iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,681 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837 (189 years ago).