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A heavy-bodied, fuzzy yellow spider with a grayish back, often with a white spot in the middle. The legspan would be around 6-7 cm.
These spiders were seen @ 700 masl in the Amazon rainforest of SE Ecuador, traditionally sitting in the middle of a web that reached from the lower branches of a tree to the ground.
The third picture was taken at night against a piece of paper as it sat in its web. They build a web from tree branches to the ground every night after dark, and it is always gone by daylight. I normally "find" them by inadvertently walking into their webs while prowling around at night 😊 This particular web was over 2 meters from a branch to the ground. The last picture is of another individual, but of the same kind that had made its web from a banana leaf to the ground..
Spotted on Apr 15, 2011
Submitted on Jan 27, 2019
