This baby has a body about quarter of an inch long and is sitting in its newly made web in the flowers around our house. I can't find a picture of anything similar online - can anyone identify it?

Golden Orb?

Golden Orb?

Yes Tywais, you are correct

regards Worgeordie

Doesn't look like any of the Golden Orb pictures that Google turned up.

Kcissi Ollafub

Kcissi Ollafub

You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave.

I never had a phobia about spiders in fact I quite liked them....till I got bitten by one in Sumatra... dont know the type or species but it caused me great discomfort.... while the bite was painful and inflamed the worst was that the clinic had to cut it open as its eggs had hatched under the skin and were consuming tissue at an alarming rate...

seems the little ones have quite a reputation in Indonesia

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Kcissi Ollafub

You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave.

Bufallo IsSick

Kcissi Ollafub

You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave.

Bufallo IsSick

Hysterical.

Keep them coming...

Is very common in the forests, specialy at humid areas. It looks like a black and yellow argiope, an argiope species anyway.

Although big enough to deliver a bite, these spiders are not poisonous or aggressive.

Edited December 31, 201213 yr by Joop50

It doesn't look like any of the golden orb spiders that I have pictures of.

Is very common in the forests, specialy at humid areas. It looks like a black and yellow argiope, an argiope species anyway.

Although big enough to deliver a bite, these spiders are not poisonous or aggressive.

Believe you have it.

http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/2012/08/banded-argiope.html

Agreed, looks to be an Argiope, though few if any spiders are poisonous, most are venomous.

here we go again.

We seem to have loads of them around the place.

Must be right time of year or something....even started giving them names...dear dear ..

Unfortunately there seems to be rather more scorpions than usual....wee buggers...ouch

St. Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope mangal)

Quite far down Google Image search for Golden Orb I found this one:

http://www.google.co...:45,s:200,i:139

Looks like it could be a match. But it is quite possible it's a case of misidentification, too... Argiope looks likely.

Edited December 31, 201213 yr by weary

I believe it is commonly known as the Writing Spider Argiope anasuja . . . were just commenting on them the other day...

http://animaliahut.wordpress.com/tag/sri-lanka-spiders/

I think we all agree on the genus..... the species needs a shot of the carapace for an Id.

Got one that lives over my fish tank.

It can compress it`s self to look like a stick and almost invisible.

Edited December 31, 201213 yr by Beetlejuice

Got one that lives over my fish tank.

He obvious believes in the "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer" theory

Nevertheless a beutiful picture you took

Thanks

glegolo

It was obliging enough to finish its meal and hang around until this morning so I got down in the dirt to take a picture from the other side.

Maybe Daoyai can pin down the exact make now - it does look rather like the Banded Argiope a poster suggested above.

Happy New Year to you all, by the way.

Edited January 1, 201313 yr by Greenside

I can just make out the compliance plate on the lower left side of the abdomen.

It is a 2010 model.

Factory colour Submarine Yellow.