#Eriophora

[ljsbugblog]

night falls on a large female Eriophora, who waits in the centre of her freshly spun web for flying insects.

Garden Orb Weaver Spider, female (Eriophora sp.).

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Mascot

We'd planned, while in Sydney, to meet the rest of my family there, This didn't happen - bloody virus. Instead we spent two days at hotels near the airport. I did, at least, walk through some of the tiny reserves near the first hotel - the parks nearer the airport were very dissapointing as far as species go.

[platycryptus]

The tropical orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla) is a widespread species found from the warmer parts of the southern US down to South America.

Unlike some other orbweavers, E. ravilla is strictly nocturnal, tearing down and consuming its web before hiding every morning and rebuilding it remarkably fast in the evening. Walk down a trail in Florida at dusk and you’ll likely find your return path blocked by large webs that weren’t there just a few minutes prior. This behavior likely helps them avoid detection by day-flying spider wasps that might otherwise use the web locate them.

[lakelewisia]

Eriophora Dyeworks traded goods and favors with a number of herders locally and in the sister cities to have raw materials on which to use their dyes. Of course, there were the heritage breeds of sheep, the llama and alpaca herds that peered at them from small faces on periscope necks when the dye makers came to visit, even the tranquil domestic unicorns with their spinnable manes and tails. More precious for their rarity were the people who kept vegetable lambs and spun their ovine cotton, or the otherwise eerily motionless keepers of spiders, whose fingers constantly rolled like they were pulling up a single strand of steel-strong silk from some industrious arachnid just out of the uneasy visitor's sight.

[francescointoppa]

Cardo scardaccio (Lophiolepis eriophora (L.) Del Guacchio, Bureš, Iamonico & P.Caputo (= Cirsium e. (L.) Scop.), Asteraceae)

[onenicebugperday]

@d4dasher123 submitted: Found this lovely lady outside a few nights ago and almost walked into her web! Would love to know what species she is, as all I’ve been able to find online is garden spider (but the colours are swapped! black upper legs, yellow lower legs). Found in Slidell, Louisiana :)

Lovely woman! She's a tropical orbweaver, Eriophora ravilla :)

[herpsandbirds]

I offer you a challenge: identify a spider on a loose description alone.

Location: black water state forest in Milton, Florida

Time of year: late summer to early autumn, during the hours of darkness

The spider was building a beautiful web roughly the size of pie pan 8 or 9 inches.

The abdomen was like a marble it was so round. Soft brown in color? Perhaps a pale yellow. I think I remember it looking slightly fuzzy. My dad said it was wolf spider at the time (2007) but when I looked it earlier this year, I’m sure it’s not that.

Mystery Spider in Florida:

Well, it sound like its some kind of orb weaver, family Araneidae, and there are several species that occur there.

One of the possibilities is the Tropical Orbweaver, Eriophora ravilla.

tropical orb weaver spider - Eriophora ravilla (C.L. Koch)

[spid3rs0up]

This is a garden orb weaver I've been checking in on since spring started. She's big enough for me to try and ID now, I think she's Hortophora Transmarina (woah trans spider), so we've called her Marina. She didn't seem to be building a web tonight, idk if she's sleeping in or just doesn't wanna bother with one tonight.

Garden orb weavers are nocturnal, they make a new web every night and eat it before sunrise. Very fun almost walking into their huge webs that weren't there 30 minutes ago (I actually love looking for them). Unfortunately she'll only be around till around the end of summer. They live about a year, grow in spring, breed in summer then the babies float away and lay low till spring. This is a video of her from just under a month ago:

The genus name Hortophora is new-ish, they used to be under Eriophora which was incorrect. She could be a different Hortophora spider, the shape of the head and abdomen and lack of any white pattern on the abdomen make me think Transmarina. This is a picture of her from a month and a half ago:

I hope she keeps growing and meets a nice boyfriend to eat this summer.

[shesbugginout]

A spider I seen and I Loved .. I wonder what ITZ name iz…

Update : The tropical orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla) is a widespread species found from the warmer parts of the southern US down to South America.

[dragonbleps]

I think I know the spider making the huge-ass web!!!

Eriophora ravilla. The Tropical Orb Weaver. Described as nocturnal, making its web at night, then tearing it down before dawn leaving only the main thread, and remaking it the next night, which fits the pattern of this spider!! I thought it was being destroyed by the wind, but it's probably just taking it down to remake it. I even know the leaf it hides in during the day--I thought it was a different spider, but it might not be.

Also they're known for making their webs in treetop canopies and the main web can be OVER A METER ACROSS, with the bridge thread up to SIX METERS!!!! excuse me??????

The main orb web of this one is only about a foot across but the bridge thread is easily 4-6 feet across.

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Gundagai

AYArktos' photo from Wiki, since I was too busy looking for insects around the place to photograph the statue.

Gundagai is a small town on the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne, and site of the famous Dog on the Tuckerbox, from a doggeral poem written at least as early as 1857. The bullock team driver in the poem was not having a good day, and the poem was considered quite rude even without the popular variations with an added 'h'

And the dog sat on the tuckerbox five miles from Gundagai.

@purrdence and I hadn't planned on stopping there - we'd originally intended to catch the train from Wagga Wagga to Sydney. But we didn't want to infect anybody with COVID.

[rattyexplores]

Dew drops caught in the web.

Eriophora transmarina, “Australian Garden Orbweaver”

03/04/21

[ritware1850]

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#Repost @wannabe_entomologist ・・・ The GORGEOUS Eriophora Garden Orb Weaver I found this morning. One very fat, (hopefully pregnant) girl. Biggest one I’ve ever seen. I haven’t found this species as a whole to be aggressive, although I have encountered one feisty one in the past. Their venom is not medically significant. Hence the reason I’m holding it. 😉 ** To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com** #spider #spiders #arachnid #gardenorb #eriophora #australianspiders #arachnophobia #nature #naturelovers #naturelover #love #entomology #biology #zoology #arachnology #australia #instagram #scarystuff #bugs

[lakelewisia]

Norma's Fabric Store and Eriophora Dyeworks remind you that, while the summer may feel like a strange time to think about blankets and scarves and such, those who wish to make something warm for winter need to start early, whether they knit, crochet, quilt, or weave. To encourage you to start that next project soon enough to actually enjoy it, both stores are offering special deals on supplies and services, from custom spinning jobs (alpaca/woolly jackalope is the trending blend for fall) to ergonomic hooks and needles. Just keep in mind the sweater curse and make sure the intended recipient of all that time and effort deserves it.

[francescointoppa]

L – Lophiolepis eriophora (L.) Del Guacchio, Bureš, Iamonico & P.Caputo (= Cirsium e.) – Cardo scardaccio (Asteraceae)

2, Sfinge del galio (Macroglossa stellatarum L., Sphingidae)

3, Ape legnaiola (Xylocopa violacea L., Apidae)