Leucauge is a genus of spiders of the Long Jawed Orb Weaver family (Tetragnathidae). They are usually found in warmer areas. There are several varieties of this species – Leucauge venusta, Leucauge dromedaria (known as the silver or horizontal orb weaver, and Leucauge celebesiana. Here are some photos of Venusta Orchard Spiders (Leucauge venusta) and others in this species. The Venusta Orchard Spider, […]
Garden Orb Weavers
Here’s some photos of those common Garden spiders from the Orb Weaving family. My apologies if there are some Araneus on pages where they don’t belong but they are very hard to classify. Try this page for a species guide: https://usaspiders.com/orb-weaver/ or this one: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1972/bgpage Orb weavers (Araneidae) are often brightly coloured with rounded abdomens, […]
Long Jawed Orb Weaver – Tetragnatha sp.
There are 980 species of the Tetragnatha family worldwide. Long-jawed orb weavers are fairly easy to identify by their huge, powerful jaws, or chelicerae, and long, slender abdomen. Like the other family of orb weavers, the Araneidae, these spiders have eight eyes and these eyes are in 2 rows. They have 3 claws on each […]
Cyclosa Conica
Cyclosa conica is a small spider with no common name. It is an orb weaver, and it is easily recognized by the way it strings together the dead bodies of insects and other debris and hangs it near the centre of its web. It hides on this string of debris, and its natural coloration makes it […]
Micrathena Orb Weaver
The spider genus Micrathena contains more than hundred species, most of them Neotropical woodland orb-weavers. Only three species occur in the eastern United States: females of M. gracilis (the Spined Micrathena) have five pairs of conical tubercles on the abdomen, female M. mitrata have two short posterior pairs, and female M. sagittata (the Arrow-shaped Micrathena) have three pairs. Micrathena sagittata is found in the […]
Araneus Transmarinus Orb Weaver
The Araneus spider is a member of the orb weaving garden spiders. The scientific name for this spider is Araneus transmarinus. There are many kinds of Araneus in Australia. The size of this spider can be 4 mm to 26 mm in length. This spider usually has a round, plump body with two rounded points on the shoulders. […]
Argiope Spiders
Here are some photos of Argiope spiders, mainly from the United States. In Australia, we call our variety St. Andrew’s Cross but in the United States they are more commonly called a Black and Yellow Argiope, (Argiope aurantia). We have had so many queries and photos sent in of these from people who have never seen them […]
St Andrew’s Cross Spider
The St Andrew’s Cross Spider’s Latin name is Argiope kiyserlingi. The female’s size is about 20mm long and its cephalothorax is flattened and covered in white or silver hairs. It also has a banded and spotted abdomen in a white, yellow, red and black pattern The male is about 4 mm long and has a brown […]
Basilica Spiders
In contrast with the flat webs of the orchard spiders, the webs of most of the Basilica Orb Weaver spiders (Mecynogea lemniscata) fill a three-dimensional space and no two threads seem to be in the same plane. They are often found in groups in contiguous webs. Maybe they get their common name from this web […]
Darwin’s Bark Spider
Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini) is an orb-weaver spider that produces one of the largest known orb webs, with anchor lines spanning up to 25 metres (82 ft). The spider was discovered in Madagascar in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in 2009. The species was named in honour of the naturalist Charles Darwin, with the description being prepared precisely 150 years after the publication of The Origin of […]
