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Medium sized - around 5 cm including legs
Found in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
A small orb spider with paired legs posture in its web. This would be an ...
Rather big ( 9 cm ) spider sitting in a Zigg zagged Cross made in its web. ...
Signature spider
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Leg span 2.5cms. This is the biggest cross that I have seen in this spider.
Medium size spider with bold yellow stripes. Common along the Australian East ...
A beautiful creature. I love the geometric pattern of its web!
I seem to have a habit of finding six leg spiders!
Web is a fine orb with 1-4 bars of thicker web, forming a cross, hence the ...
species, Argiope aetherea. A.
The second shot is a close up of the smaller spider in the web... possibly the ...
2 cm long Creates x shape with legs Black with white markings around legs and ...
A well known and well loved orb spider featuring the positioning of the legs in ...
Orb-weaver, body length 17mm. Web has distinctive white cross in the centre.
This is what I believe to be an orange morph of this spider, as all other ...
This is a female! She has "...a silvery carapace and a silver, yellow, red and ...
Strikingly coloured abdomen and web has zig-zag stabilimenta. Spider rests ...
This spider has only one....but a lot are seen with squiggles on their web in ...
about 15mm, spotted when preparing his prey for lunch. his back resembles a ...
These medium to large orb spiders are prolific at the moment. Making their ...
A thin male example of the St Andrews Cross spider. He is missing a leg and ...
St Andrew's Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ...
I apologize for the blurry pictures. I found this spider near a path. It has 8 ...
An adult male St Andrew's Cross Spider is about 15mm long from tip to tip. It ...
Seen/photographed in our yard in northern Sydney by my husband, Nathan. These ...