What is this beautiful specimen called?
What is this beautiful specimen called?
Ignore the dirty window lol. Had them in our house for over a week in that spot now, but this is the first time they turned around. I find the legs mesmerizing
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That there is a spider.
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You made me chuckle.
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It's a cross orbweaver or European garden spider (Araneus diadematus).
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Yes, that’s it. Thanks!
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Golden Orb Weavers are common in Australia. I took this pic back in 2016 to send to some of my friends back in the US who find a kind of intense fascination in spiders (and also in avoiding them). Note the banding on the legs, same as yours:
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Seems like some sort of Orb Weaver (where hanging in a web is a clue): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider
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Over here we call them cross spiders because of the cross pattern on their abdomen
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Img from spiderspotter.com-
I'll raise you this picture with even more variations.
https://wiki.arages.de/images/c/c3/45_Araneus_diadematus.jpg
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Beautiful!
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a spoder
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Spider
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Aww…I know I place for this picture:
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Gorgeous Spider, Orb Weaver, destroyer of flies, protector of your house.
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a spider
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Is everybody just completely misunderstanding what AskLemmy is supposed to be for? Are mods actually doing anything?
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THANK YOU. This is absurd. People are treating this like it’s a search engine.
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a nope
