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title: "Eastern Bush Orbweaver"
description: "Plebs eburnus — Owady i pająki. The spider species Plebs eburnus is commonly referred to as the eastern grass orb-weaver or the eastern bush orb-weaver, and sometimes more simply as the bush orb-weaver."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/eastern-bush-orbweaver
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eastern Bush Orbweaver

> Plebs eburnus — Owady i pająki. The spider species Plebs eburnus is commonly referred to as the eastern grass orb-weaver or the eastern bush orb-weaver, and sometimes more simply as the bush orb-weaver.

- Scientific name: *Plebs eburnus*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Łąki i pola), `savanna` (Sawanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 7463
- Wikidata: [Q27447187](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27447187)
- iNaturalist taxon: [552252](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/552252)

## Names

- en: Eastern Bush Orbweaver

## Countries with the most observations

AU (4741)

## Summary

The spider species Plebs eburnus is commonly referred to as the eastern grass orb-weaver or the eastern bush orb-weaver, and sometimes more simply as the bush orb-weaver. It is an orb-weaver spider from the family Araneidae endemic to Australia. It is a very common spider with distinctive white markings (although these marking can be quite variable), which give it the species name eburnus pertaining to ivory. It is found in scrub and tall grasses where the female constructs a vertical web usually no more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) from the ground, and stays there day and night. The web of some of these spiders has…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs_eburnus

## Photo

![Eastern Bush Orbweaver](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eastern-bush-orbweaver/medium.jpg)

Photo: bettong-whisperer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224331875

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eastern-bush-orbweaver?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).