Bird-dropping Arkys at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Arkys curtulus | 25 Jan 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Arkys curtulus | 24 Jan 2025 | TimL |
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The Bird-dropping spider had just caught prey and was holding onto it, raised off the leaf. I'm not sure what the prey was but close inspection of the images shows long wasp-like antennae, very hairy eye surrounds and a sting at the tail. Possibly a wasp of some sort, similar in size to the small spider. The final image shows the debris of the spider's previous prey and many lines of silk threads forming a base that this type of spider usually sits on in an ambush position.
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
25 Jan 2025
Prey may be an adult sawfly which may have been looking to use its saw to lay eggs in leaf on which spider was sitting
Location information
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
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Species information
- Arkys curtulus Scientific name
- Bird-dropping Arkys Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 639.4m Recorded at altitude
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