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Golden Silk spider

Nephila clavipes

Photo by JenniferRoge
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Field Notes

Description:

A large female golden silk spider that is missing a leg on the left side. Nephila spiders vary from reddish to greenish yellow in color with distinctive whiteness on the cephalothorax and the beginning of the abdomen.

Habitat:

I found this spider at the Deering Estate.

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