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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