Leaf Curling Spiders are amazing because they are safe to us and they curl into a leaf like their name.
- The Leaf Curling Spider’s scientific name is Phonognatha Graeffei.
- Most spiders are venomous, but Leaf Curling Spiders are not dangerous to us. However, they do have small fangs.
- Like most other orb-weaving spiders, Leaf-Curling Spiders are not fussy and will eat any insect that happens to get tangled in their web, such as flies, bees, moths and butterflies. They can even handle prey quite a bit bigger than them.
- Both male and female Leaf Curling Spiders have a reddish-brown body and legs alongside a cream pattern on the back.
- Leaf curling spiders live in the eastern, southern and northeastern states of Australia. They live in open woodland, and forests as well as suburban gardens and urban areas.
