Golden orb weaver at Canberra Central, ACT
Identification history
| Trichonephila edulis | 2 Mar 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Trichonephila edulis | 28 Feb 2017 | Qwerty |
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User's notes
What is going on - is it sex or storing for food?
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
2 Mar 2017
The larder of food stored behind the female is a food bank for harsher times. Th smaller spiders in the top of the main image are the males and they are just waiting a chance to mate and freeloading on any food caught in the females web. The female will shortly produce a fluffy golden egg sac, hidden in leaves next to the web. She will die soon after producing the sac.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.176011-35.237417
- Places Canberra Central, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 27 Feb 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
- Qwerty Recorded by
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Collections
Spiders Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Qwerty Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Trichonephila edulis Scientific name
- Golden orb weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 840m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Nephila edulis
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