Bug FAQOrchard Orbweaver
Leucauge venusta · Order: Araneae · Family: Tetragnathidae
Also called: Longjawed Orb Weavers, orchard spider, venusta orchard spider
The orchard orbweaver has leaf-green legs and sides, with a silvery back marked by brown and black streaks and a spotted underside; its abdomen may show yellow, orange or red spots that vary in size or may be absent. It builds a mostly horizontal web and hangs in the center, and it is found from southern Canada down to Colombia and also in parts of South Asia.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Legs and sides are leaf-green, sometimes darker or orange, with a silvery top marked by brown and black streaks and a yellow-black spotted underside; abdomen spots are variable.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
The spider’s web is usually oriented horizontally, and it hangs down in the middle of the web.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 40 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in United States; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Tetragnathidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucauge_venusta
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.