Salsa fuliginata
Sooty Orb-weaver at Molonglo Valley, ACT
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| Salsa fuliginata | MichaelMulvaney | 16 Feb 2022 | |
| Unverified | sangio7 | 16 Feb 2022 |
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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.
2 comments
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.
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
Keep up the good work.
Warren
Location information
- Coordinates 149.034746-35.263607
- Altitude 646.0m
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Feb 2022 01:58 PM Recorded on
- sangio7 Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Collections
- Spiders Orb-weaving spiders (several families) sangio7 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Salsa fuliginata
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
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Synonyms
Cyclosa fuliginata (Sooty Orb-weaver)
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