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spider web

Photo by Scott Frazier
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

An intricate bell-shaped (inner) web of an unidentified species (Cyrtophora sp.?) of spider. The third photo shows another web of the same type located nearby, with the spider resident.

Habitat:

On a spider orchid -- ha ha -- (Arachnis sp.) in a large semi-urban yard & garden near a disturbed patch of remnant forest in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

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Comments (1)

What an interesting web ... I'd love to see the spider making it.

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