Black-and-White Spiny Spider

Description:

This is the same spider which was shown in https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/61...... I returned to its web today, for two reasons. The first was that I did not get a ventral photo last time because of a number of very sharp Spiny Bamboo twigs which barred acces to the back of the web. This time I brought secateurs and my first picture above is the result.. The second reason was that I wanted to see if the spider had improved its web decoration. As you can see in the second picture it looks even less impressive.

Habitat:

This spider was spotted in the rice mill backyard. Its web was on a Spiny Bamboo (Bambusa bambos) which is known in the Philippines as Kauayan-tinik. Plant info. from - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Kauayan.htm......

Notes:

When I looked at the previous spotting side-by-side with this one, I saw immediately that the marks on the carapace had become much darker and there were some (very minor) changes in the shape of these marks. So, I think that the spider had probably moulted in the three days since I first spotted it.