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Black-Striped Orchard Spider

Leuauge celebesiana

Habitat:

Paddy fileds next to two large rivers.

Notes:

Maximum bugs I witnessed in this paddy fields were glow worms (in the night, the view from the wild elephant watch tower, the field looked like a huge starry night). Other bugs in frequency were moths, followed by dragonflies, darker versions of butterflies, grass hoppers, crickets, etc. They all appear responsible for pollination of the paddy, but these vatieties (some 7-8) of spiders may be against the interest of the farmers! A particular variety set webs along small canals and trapped smaller dragonflies.

1 Species ID Suggestions

eeptii x
eeptii x 9 years ago
Black-striped orchard spider
Leucauge celebesiana Leucauge celebesiana


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12 Comments

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks James for the encouragement.

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Welcome. Beautifully captured image of a startlingly pretty spider!

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks James McNair for liking it.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks mollyhowarth38 for the comment and making it favourite.

mollyhowarth38
mollyhowarth38 9 years ago

Cool.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks Leuba Ridgway for the compliment.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago

Interesting information as well -thanks Dr Sherpa.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks Marta for the like.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks QWMom and Nuwan for making it favourite.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Thanks bayucca and Deepti for all the time and effort you put in for the leads.

eeptii x
eeptii x 9 years ago

Nice spotting! Came across one more link, please have a look - http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Asia/I...

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Looks for me like a Tetragnathidae. There are several genera found in India. We may need the view of the other side to get a safer ID...
Opadometa fastigata or similar?? Leucagae decorata or similar or another genus??
http://indiantetragnathidae.blogspot.ch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucauge
http://wongchunxing.com/Spider/1-WEBS/Fa...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/filtre/207...

DrNamgyalTSherpa
Spotted by
DrNamgyalTSherpa

བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, Bhutan

Spotted on Sep 27, 2014
Submitted on Oct 10, 2014

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