Bird-dropping spider at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Celaenia excavata | 20 Jan 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Celaenia excavata | 20 Jan 2022 | TimL |
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User's notes
A follow up to sightings 4415892 and 4417792. The spider now has three egg sacs and this sequence of images shows the spider with another recently caught moth. The spider is hanging upside down in the images.
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
20 Jan 2022
Thanks Tim @GlennCocking I think this is the same species of moth that Cath Busby recorded
Location information
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- TimL Recorded by
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Spiders Orb-weaving spiders (several families) TimL Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Celaenia excavata Scientific name
- Bird-dropping spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 702m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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