Orb weaver & eggs

Spiny orb weaver (Micrathena (?) sp.) - Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

 

A spiny orb weaver spider from Yasuni constructing an egg case on the back side of a leaf which it had suspended from silk strands. The leaf was slowly spinning in place so I set up to photograph this spider and just had to wait for the leaf to spin around so that the spider was facing me. I've seen numerous orb weavers building egg cases such on a lone leaf dangling from a web strand however this was one of the prettiest species I have seen doing this.

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