Stretch Spider or Long-jawed orb weaver (Tetragnatha hasselti)

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Tetragnatha hasselti	May 25, 2026	Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh

Let's know some interesting scientific facts about this useful friend and strange spider. Below are all the details:

Common name: ** Spider or Long-jawed orb weaver**. They are called stretch spiders because they keep their bodies stretched like sticks.
Scientific name: Tetragnatha hasselti.
Family: It is a spider belonging to the Tetragnathidae family.
Genus: Its genus is Tetragnatha.

Appearance: These spiders look completely different. Their bodies are very long and narrow. Their legs are unusually long compared to their bodies. Their body color is light yellowish-green or golden brown, which looks quite shiny.

​Habitat and habitat: They are found in abundance in the nature of various Asian countries including Bangladesh, India, China, Indonesia. They mainly prefer to live on the banks of ponds, rice fields, wetlands and damp wild grass leaves.

​Character or trick: They can do a very great trick. During the day, they lie on the grass or leaves with their long legs straight. Then they look exactly like a dry stick, which is called camouflage in English. Due to this disguise, they easily escape from predators.

​Food: They usually weave small parallel webs in the grass at night. Mosquitoes, small flies and various small flying insects that are harmful to crops are their main food.

​Benefits: These camouflaged spiders are a real blessing to maintain the balance of our nature. They do a lot of good to our environment by eating a large number of harmful mosquitoes and harmful insects in the rice fields every day. They are a great friend of our farmers.

​Disadvantages: This spider has no disadvantages or bad side. They do not cause any harm to humans or crops, they are completely safe for us.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)
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Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
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Cassidinae	Stretch Spider or Long-jawed orb weaver (Tetragnatha hasselti)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/366781371

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3363	89.1137	https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=12/24.3363/89.1137