Greenside Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Golden Orb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Golden Orb? Yes Tywais, you are correctregards Worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenside Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Doesn't look like any of the Golden Orb pictures that Google turned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phronesis Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Kcissi Ollafub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenside Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Kcissi Ollafub You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturebrit Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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 Sent from my GT-N7000 using Thaivisa Connect App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phronesis Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Kcissi Ollafub You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave. Bufallo IsSick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenside Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Kcissi Ollafub You have a common name for that? Google doesn't recognise the spelling you gave. Bufallo IsSick Hysterical. Keep them coming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joop50 Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by Joop50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene123 Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 It doesn't look like any of the golden orb spiders that I have pictures of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daoyai Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Agreed, looks to be an Argiope, though few if any spiders are poisonous, most are venomous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hml367 Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 here we go again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinrada Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 St. Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope mangal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weary Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by weary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOxon Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daoyai Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 I think we all agree on the genus..... the species needs a shot of the carapace for an Id. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beetlejuice Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by Beetlejuice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phronesis Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Got one that lives over my fish tank. He obvious believes in the "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer" theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glegolo Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Nevertheless a beutiful picture you took Thanks glegolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenside Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 (edited) 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, 2013 by Greenside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phronesis Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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