Araneidae (family)
Orb weaver at Hughes, ACT
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| Araneidae (family) | KimPullen | 27 Sep 2020 | |
| Araneidae (family) | JonSteinbeck | 26 Sep 2020 |
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I saw a small spider on the end of a rose bush leaf that I believe was most likely an Orb-weaver Spider. There was no large web, just this solitary spider sitting at the end of a wet leaf. Initially, the spider seemed oblivious to the drops of rain. Then, as the rain became heavier, it curled itself up into a ball. The spider must have felt that this effort was still not enough, because it then moved off the leaf, following a strand of silk that took it to a neighbouring clump of leaves where one leaf overlapped another forming the barest of shelters. At first the spider went in there head first but then turned around to face back towards me. I wondered if it was going to adjust the upper leaf but the orb-weaver appeared comfortable enough under the leaf.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.097713-35.334438
- Altitude 197.8m
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Sep 2020 11:05 AM Recorded on
- JonSteinbeck Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Araneidae (family) Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Spiders
Species information
- Araneidae (family) Scientific name
- Orb weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1624m Recorded at altitude
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