Today, while getting in my car, I spotted this guy/lady about 1 meter away from me.
I only was able to take a picture of the underside as the spider was hanging in his/her web and I could not take a picture of the upper side.
Anybody knows what kind of spider this is?
It had something like a "Clown face" on his/her body and the legs were in an "X" form, 2 by 2.
TIA
 

mmm.... does it have eight legs or not? 

Banana Spider

A type of Argiope. Many types. They Like to put zigzags in their webs. I think Banana spider is also used for them, as well as zipper spider and garden spider.

The attached one is a SIlver Argiope from Florida.

Don't know the name of the spider, but based on the markings I'm pretty sure it's the same  as one we had in our garden last year.

 

Sophon

oooh !    I have a fear of looking at spiders ... they make me cringe at the sight of them ...   snakes no problem, but I hate spiders.

3 hours ago, Sophon said:

Don't know the name of the spider, but based on the markings I'm pretty sure it's the same  as one we had in our garden last year.

 

Sophon

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Looks even more scary from the top.
I think I need to move ........

A little research indicates that it's a female Argiopi Aemula spider, also known as an Oval St. Andrew's Cross spider (because of the way it positions its legs).

 

Sophon

6 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Looks even more scary from the top.
I think I need to move ........

 

Here's the cousin in Australia.

 

sorta looks like the golden orb spiders that we'd get in Indonesia, harmless but big and creepy...they'd weave big webs near footpaths by the tea plantations at higher cooler elevations (we had a timeshare at Puncak outside of Jakarta) and if ye didn't look where ye were goin' ye'd get giant spider all over yer face and, ugh...and I'm an arachnophobe too...

 

 

I have in my garden a water tank with 1,500 liter of water capacity.
I use this tank only for watering my garden and cleaning gardening tools.

But since last week, the tank did not fill up as quick as before and I found some kind of wire in the water.

I opened the water tank, and found a spiderweb hanging in the watertank.
The spiderweb was made of yarn of 1 mm to 1.5 mm of size.

Incredible.
The spider who made all this yarn was a little spider with a body length of about 2 cm.

Total length, including the legs, was about 8 cm.
Does anybody recognise this  spider?
TIA

 

 

Edited January 11, 20188 yr by Confuscious

 

 

When I posted a similar photo of a very large spider in a Phuket hotel a few years one or more repliers thought it was a member of the orb-weaver family.

1 hour ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

When I posted a similar photo of a very large spider in a Phuket hotel a few years one or more repliers thought it was a member of the orb-weaver family.

Possible.
But I look to identify this spider more accurate.
The web in the water, made with thick yarn is something I never seen before.
It clogged the water inlet.

On 11/01/2018 at 10:36 AM, Confuscious said:

I have in my garden a water tank with 1,500 liter of water capacity.
I use this tank only for watering my garden and cleaning gardening tools.

But since last week, the tank did not fill up as quick as before and I found some kind of wire in the water.

I opened the water tank, and found a spiderweb hanging in the watertank.
The spiderweb was made of yarn of 1 mm to 1.5 mm of size.

Incredible.
The spider who made all this yarn was a little spider with a body length of about 2 cm.

Total length, including the legs, was about 8 cm.
Does anybody recognise this  spider?
TIA

 

 

It's a fishing spider. We got lots over here.

Class: Dolomedes

On 12/01/2018 at 6:53 PM, canuckamuck said:

It's a fishing spider. We got lots over here.

Class: Dolomedes

Thanks for your reply.
I have been looking in Google, and found spiders who are similar to the one on my pictures.

But, quoting Google, "this spider don't make spider webs."
Which spider (or other animal) did make the "webs" which can clearly been spotted in my pictures?
Never saw a spiderweb made out a rag of this thickness.

Beautiful ! All pics !

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