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Net casting spider

Deinopis subrufa (Male)

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

This net casting spider has huge eyes and is aalso calles the ogre-faced spider. They cast a silken web over their prey rather than chasing them or spinning a static orb web.

Habitat:

On wooden wall of local school building.

Notes:

Spider #3
I wish I had my macro camera back then
I confidently told everyone it is a wishbone spider but that's not accurate.

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Comments (4)

Mark, here is the spider-with-web finally spotted http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/114596111
Very cool - I've not seen anything like this before!
Yep nasty looking. Next time I see one of these I want to capture the lot including net and prey if possible..
you've got to see this close up of this ogre faced spider...... scroll down to the last pic... http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/Deinopidae/Deinopidae.html

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