Salsa fuliginata

Sooty Orb-weaver at Molonglo Valley, ACT

Salsa fuliginata at Molonglo Valley, ACT - 14 Feb 2022
Salsa fuliginata at Molonglo Valley, ACT - 14 Feb 2022
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Salsa fuliginata 16 Feb 2022 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 16 Feb 2022 sangio7

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Photographing this little guy was an afterthought after 3 times discouraging it from climbing onto my spraying knapsack as I was trying to put it on. The yellow spots on the underside may help with an ID.

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   16 Feb 2022
Thanks - the underside of spiders are key identification features and teh yellow spots did indeed help. We were brothers in arms this morning as I was also spraying - mainly African Lovegrass.
sangio7 wrote:
   16 Feb 2022
Thanks Michael. If it wasn't for the yellow spots I wouldn't have bothered logging it. Glad to hear you've been at the coal face. After what seemed like a slow start ALG has really taken off. I was actually spraying St. John's Wort, also having a very good year as you would knw, and certainly not having the decency to have a slow start. Monday was my 3rd long day banging away at it down in the south-east corner of the Pinnacle Offset, which has the saving grace of having so many nice plants to look at, even better than anticipated along the eastern boundary as you can see from some of my other posts. It makes the spraying much more enjoyable knowing it is worthwhile, even if it is somewhat distracting. 27 native species (that I recognised) in the 0.6 ha I sprayed; the masses of Tricoryne that you confirmed were the highlight though, along with the large areas of Cyperus sphaeroideus which is quite a lovely sedge, especially when seen en masse.
Keep up the good work.
Warren

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  • Less than 5mm Animal size

Species information

  • Salsa fuliginata Scientific name
  • Sooty Orb-weaver Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1581m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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  • Synonyms

    Cyclosa fuliginata (Sooty Orb-weaver)

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