Queensland, Australia

There where multiple of them not seen in the picture so the spider seems communal, I had seen up to 5 of them at one point

Couldn’t get a clearer picture because it’s been raining on and off and I didn’t want to get my hands and phone near an unidentified spider

Tried googling but couldn’t identify it

Edit: I’m also pretty sure it had caught an insect in this picture

  • x4740N@lemm.eeOP
    1·
    7 个月前

    Question about the orb weavers, is there always a female near the males or can the males live without a female ?

    • remon@ani.socialM
      3·
      7 个月前

      They do live separately from each other until the males reach maturity. Then they’ll abandon their own webs and go searching for the ladies. The reason you often find a male (or sometimes multiple) hanging out in a females web is, that the female hasn’t reached maturity, yet. So the males will just hang out and wait till she’s ready.