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These awesome little spiders camouflage themselves in their own web by hiding in a line of dead insect prey down the center of their web. Scroll down to see the full view!
If anyone can identify the genus and species then this is information I would love to know!
Photographed in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh.
Eriophora ravilla
Note the characteristic pigment spots on the abdomen which resemble a cross.
These spiders spin their webs, which can be many feet wide, in the evening. At night they sit in the web seeking prey caught in the web. By day, they usually hide in a rooled up leaf somewhere near the edge of the web.
Selva Verde Lodge at night.
Eriovixia sp. female with multiple egg sacs !
Pics of the same female taken a couple of weeks ago with a single egg sac .
Arachtober 10th, Trashline Orbweaver, Cyclosa conica. This liitle guy set up shop under the light outside the garage.
I'm fairly sure this is a Leucauge venusta, and it has spun a gorgeous web in a corner of our deck in the backyard.
Tiny spider about 2mm diameter sitting in the centre of its orb-web waiting for prey. When it sets itself up to catch prey, it stretches its 4 front legs forward on the web strands. Then it pulls back slightly, to tension the web, in order to feel vibrations as a potential meal catches in the sticky strands.
Also called the Banana spider. This spider spun it's web across a 20' wide canal, 15' in the air on the Historic Mangrove Trail on the Deering Estate in South Miami, Florida.
A "new" orbweaver for me! This is Aculepeira packardi, found at high elevations (over 9,000 ft. in this case) in the western U.S. Lovell Gulch, Woodland Park, Colorado, USA, July 13, 2015.