Banded Bark Spider (Caerostris sexcuspidata)
Moving Home With Araneidae Family
Imagine being able to move selectively choosing a spot to call home, positioning yourself strategically catching your food while hanging about, a lady of the night?
Prospectively designed between the shrubs she built her web, approximately 1.2 meters in length, no a tiny web by any means, Calculating where insects would be sure to pass for nightly snacks.
A nocturnal lady who carries the weight, with a very much smaller male counterpart. Extremely fortunate seeing her and the web being on the shaded side of the home.
Eight eyes watching you, not venomous, with zebra stripped hairy legs she makes her home in one place for apparently up to three weeks.
During the day she rolls up her home, tucks herself onto a branch to sleep the day away blending in with tree, embarking on building her web once again the next evening.
She moved to a slightly different spot after four nights, then stayed for another few days in her second selected area adjacent almost to the first using slightly different bushes to hunt between.
Size about 25mm, after observing her movements for over a week and a half she quietly went her own way, perhaps this is the start of a longer relationship never having seen the Banded Bark Spider in my garden ever before.
All photography is my own, any queries or requests please drop a comment below, have a wonderful day!
Thought for Today: "A spider's cobweb isn't only its sleeping spring but also its food trap." - African Proverb
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Great photos!! I also had a spider visiting, but inside the house!!
She was quite content, spiders tend to wander indoors just to say Hi....
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Banded Bark Spider, it's first time Im hearing about it. All the photos are cool, especially one with the spider
Thanks for visiting, nice to watch nature.
wow beautiful macro photographs my friend..
Thanks for kind comment and visiting.
@joanstewart, In my opinion Form Of Life is very Mathematical and every creation follows specific Geometric Structure to build their Space Of Living. Life is Mixed Art.
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Yes form of each web or nest unique in design for purpose. Thanks for visit and have a great day.
Welcome and thank you so much.
That is an amazing creature, @joanstewart! The first few pictures make her look quite frightening- like some kind of monster face. Was it easy to identify the breed of spider from her markings? I bet you’re glad you spotted the web and didn’t walk into it, especially with her in residence!
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She built alongside the path, not over it, in direct breeze where insects would be caught. With the size of her web one most definitely would not walk into it, apparently they build the strongest of webs in the spider kingdom.
Her belly markings made her reasonably easy to identify moving in late afternoon.
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Oh that’s good! I don’t mind spiders, especially outdoors. The only thing that terrifies me is actually stumbling into a web and having the spider on me!😆
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Great spider photos! She is a big one. And she is just fine, as long as she stays outdoors! ❤️
I don't mind them so long as I don't walk into their webs, they tend to hang around anywhere...
My wife can't even bare to look at photos of spiders...
Sad when someone is totally put off of certain critters, normally some childhood memory.