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Deinopis subrufa (Male)
This net casting spider has huge eyes and is aalso calles the ogre-faced spider. They cast a silken web over their prey rather than chasing them or spinning a static orb web.
On wooden wall of local school building.
Spider #3 I wish I had my macro camera back then I confidently told everyone it is a wishbone spider but that's not accurate.
Spotted on Oct 28, 2010
Submitted on Dec 28, 2011
4 Comments
Mark, here is the spider-with-web finally spotted http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/114...
Very cool - I've not seen anything like this before!
Yep nasty looking. Next time I see one of these I want to capture the lot including net and prey if possible..
you've got to see this close up of this ogre faced spider...... scroll down to the last pic... http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian...