Garden Orb Weaving Spider

In general they hardly bite unless provoked.

Garden orb weaving spider. Habitat often found in summer in garden areas around the home they spin a large circular web of 2 metres or more often between buildings and shrubs to snare flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes. Due partly to their round flat webs araneidae species possibly rank as the world s most easily identified spiders. Identification the commonly seen garden orb weavers are stout reddish brown or grey spiders with a leaf shaped pattern on their fat roughly triangular abdomens which also have two noticeable humps towards the front. Garden spiders come in all shapes and sizes and when questions about garden spider identification arise most people at least subconsciously think of the family araneidae the orb weaving spiders.

The family is cosmopolitan including many well. Orb can in english mean circular hence the english name of the group. The web of the garden orb weaver spider is very large and can measure up to three feet in diameter. In females the top side of the abdomen is black with symmetrical patches of bright yellow.

Most spiders have two claws on each foot but orb weavers have an additional claw to help them spin their complex webs. The australian garden orb weaver is a species of common fat bellied spiders. An orb spider represents a group of spiders that belong to different families live in different places and have different body shapes. It is a member of the family araneidae that includes 3122 species in 172 genera around the world.

The garden orb weaving spiders are a large group of spiders with over 100 known species in australia. For instance there are. 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. Orb spiders are non aggressive.

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. 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. The common golden orb weaver spider has a purplish bulbous abdomen with fine hairs. 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 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. Golden orb weaver spiders. Araneids have eight similar eyes hairy or spiny legs and no stridulating organs.