Golden orb weaver at suppressed
Identification history
| Trichonephila edulis | 17 Sep 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 7 Sep 2025 | MazzV |
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User's notes
The body colour and shape, and the long dark legs are suggestive of a Humped Golden Orb spider, but this one was busy with what looks like an egg-case (of appropriately golden silk), rather than a conventional orb web. (No web was observed in the immediate vicinity).
3 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
Doesn't look like an egg case, more like a small larder of past catches heavily wrapped.
NateKingsford
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
@MichaelMulvaney the lower frizzy looking web would be an egg sac, Nephilidae spp. typically construct fuzzy balls in which their eggs are encased. The extra webbing makes it look less like an egg sac tho
Sighting information
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MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Spiders Trichonephila edulis
Species information
- Trichonephila edulis Scientific name
- Golden orb weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 914m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Nephila edulis
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