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Garden Orb-web Spider

Eriophora pustulosa

Description:

14mm long; very hairy especially at front legs and face; pale pinkish-cream

Habitat:

backed into the curled corner of a lily leaf

Notes:

Camera flash has flattened the colour. It was pinker looking in normal light This is probably a juvenile.

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2 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Yes I thought of your chocolate spider when I found this one. The google image results show amazing variation in both colour and even abdomen shapes.

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago


I would think this is a female. They usually build a web each night and eat it in the morning, especially if it has taken some damage. I believe this is the male http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/893... but I suspect a complex range of variations for these garden orbs.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Mar 1, 2012
Submitted on Mar 7, 2012

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