#4194 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Walnut Orbweaver

🇳🇱 Platte wielwebspin ·Nuctenea umbratica

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. 1795 De Cocksdorp, Niederlande:© watteike · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Vossenweg, Holten, Overijssel, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Anna Paulowna, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 1025 AR Amsterdam, Nederland:© Timo Slinger · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Hemmen, Nederland:© Carel Jongkind · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1797 SL Den Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rozendaal, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Walnut Orb-weaver Spider ( Nuctenea umbratica ) is a spider of the Araneidae family.

base stats

NL sightings 532iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 30,145iNaturalist 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

Spotted 532 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #9 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
30,145 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1758 (268 years ago).