Hunter in the Center!
The tent-web spiders (genus Cyrtophora) are weaving spiders, which can create nets that appear like conical tents, as shown here. When seen closely, the web forms lots of almost perfect squares like a cloth or mosquito net with the intertwined weft and warp threads. This could be the species Cyrtophora moluccensis, but am not sure about it precisely.
Since their tent-web appears like a dome in which they rest, they are also called as Dome Spiders.
These are communal spiders and live in multiple layers of tents as colonies, just as humans stay in apartments. If the plants and space is right, one can encounter so many tent layers and adjacent tents in a small area itself.
When they lay eggs, they lay light green pockets of eggs that are attached to one another like a string of beads.
Hunter in the Center!
The tent-web spiders (genus Cyrtophora) are weaving spiders, which can create nets that appear like conical tents, as shown here. When seen closely, the web forms lots of almost perfect squares like a cloth or mosquito net with the intertwined weft and warp threads. This could be the species Cyrtophora moluccensis, but am not sure about it precisely.
Since their tent-web appears like a dome in which they rest, they are also called as Dome Spiders.
These are communal spiders and live in multiple layers of tents as colonies, just as humans stay in apartments. If the plants and space is right, one can encounter so many tent layers and adjacent tents in a small area itself.
When they lay eggs, they lay light green pockets of eggs that are attached to one another like a string of beads.