Hortophora transmarina
Garden Orb Weaver at Higgins, ACT
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| Hortophora transmarina | KimPullen | 2 Feb 2018 | |
| Unverified | AlisonMilton | 27 Jan 2018 |
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User's notes
Taken up residence outside my back door.
4 comments
3 Feb 2018
Kim, This spider does not build a web. It just hangs from the guttering outside the back door (has been there every night for a week). I thought this was more like the behaviour of a huntsman?
7 Feb 2018
Alison, a male orb weaver will usually hang around on the margins of a female's web, intending to mate and not get eaten. Huntsmen do produce silk (like all spiders) but don't use it to catch prey; the females use it to wall off a nursery in an enclosed space and to make their egg sacs.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.029583-35.238245
- Altitude 636.1m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 27 Jan 2018 11:41 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
Collections
- AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hortophora transmarina Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Spiders
Species information
- Hortophora transmarina Scientific name
- Garden Orb Weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1119.16m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Eriophora transmarina