Garden Orb Weaver Spider

Notable among them are the garden spiders subfamily argiopinae which are common in grassy areas and are brightly coloured yellow and black or red and black.

Garden orb weaver spider. The web of the garden orb weaver spider is very large and can measure up to three feet in diameter. Araneids have eight similar eyes hairy or spiny legs and no stridulating organs. They have a roughly leaf shaped pattern on the top of their abdomen with a. Orb weaver spiders or araneids are members of the spider family araneidae they are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel shaped webs often found in gardens fields and forest.

The australian garden orb weaver spider eriophora transmarina is a very common species of spider with many variants in size shape and colour across the coastal regions of australia they have very large abdomens when well fed and exhibit a tremendous colour range from off white through tan brown to almost black. The family is cosmopolitan including many well. Orb weaver spiders this family of spiders is a very large one and includes over 2800 species in over 160 genera worldwide making it the third largest family of spiders known behind the jumping spider family salticidae and the second largest family of spiders called linyphiidae commonly known as sheet weavers because of the shape of their webs. More specifically orb weaver webs are made of radial strands of silk that look like the spokes of a wheel with the spokes connected by numerous concentric circular silk strands.

Orb can in english mean circular hence the english name of the group. Orb weaver any spider of the family araneidae argiopidae or epeiridae of the order araneida a large and widely distributed group noted for their orb shaped webs. The spider species eriophora pustulosa commonly known as garden orb weaver spider belongs to the genus eriophora in the family araneidae eriophora pustulosa spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members.