5 Orb weaver at Bruce, ACT
Identification history
| Araneidae (family) | 9 Jan 2025 | EmmaCollins | ||
| Cymbacha sp (genus) | 27 Apr 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Socca pustulosa | 12 Nov 2021 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
I noticed a dead beetle (separate sighting) that I thought was caught on a gall. I decided to collect it and am glad that I used the container rather than my fingers as, as soon as it fell into the container the 'gall' moved and I realised that it was actually a spider with its prey.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.092402-35.249995
- Altitude 669.4m
- Maps Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 11 Nov 2021 09:47 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
AlisonMilton Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Spiders Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Araneidae (family) Scientific name
- Orb weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1435.2m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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