Red silver spider
Argryrodes falvescene
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Field Notes
Description:
The spider is about 5 millimeters in length. It is red and has a shiny white circle on the top. Its legs are very long, whereas the body is very small. As you can see, we caught it in a tiny jar to examine it more carefully. While doing so, this spider was trying its best to make a web inside. The original web was not very meticulous and a very abstract pattern. The web was the size of ones two hands touching each other diagonally. In addition, when we had found the spider it was curled up in the middle of the web. It was very still until we had caught it.
Habitat:
The spider was found in a dark area of the rainforest. It had made a web near a tree that wasn't so tall, affecting the height of where it was.
Notes:
According to the resource of http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/text/Argyrodes_flavesc…, this type of spider is a food stealer and lives in a web of another spider. This may be plausible because of the big web that it was found on and the small body it has, but unfortunately we did not find any large spiders nearby.
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