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Silver Orb Weaving Spiders are easily recognised by their silvery body, with yellow or green and black markings. They are long-bodied, long-limbed spiders. The abdomen often has rounded 'shoulder' humps that give these spiders their other common name of Humped Orb Weaving Spiders.
The Silver Orb Weaving Spider is often found amongst understorey vegetation in moist forest and woodland habitats, including streamside and swampland vegetation. Silver Orb-Weaving Spiders build small flimsy, horizontal webs among shrubs and grasses or over water. Our garden Phuket Thailand
I found a mudwasp nest the day before on the same place ( in the middle of the kitchen floor) and today when I found this one I identified the Silver Orb lying next to it. When I turned it around I found many more Silver Orb Spiders all lined up nicely. It appeared some were twitching there legs but it could have been the wind. I turns out that .... "Predators of orb weaving spiders include several bird species and wasps of the family Sphecidae. The wasps land on the web, lure the spider to the perimeter by imitating a struggling insect's vibrations, and then carry the spider away to be paralysed and stored as live food for their young." http://australianmuseum.net.au/Silver-Or...
Spotted on Apr 9, 2012
Submitted on Apr 11, 2012
7 Comments
Sorry.. Uhm these spiders are not sooo common so I think the wasp is really looking for these spiders. Weird and wonderful nature!!!
@ChunXingWong
Thank you!
Wow, a wasp specialized in capturing this species of spider,
or just that this species happens to be common there?
Wow! had no idea. Nice info!
Nice spotting!
great pictures and interesting information - thanks !