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Black-and-White Spiny Spider with Prey
Gasteracantha kuhli
15.4561, 119.92
Field Notes
Description:
Araneidae; Gasteracantha; G. kuhli C. L. Koch, 1837. I cannot tell what the prey inscect is as it was already wrapped in silk ribbon when I spotted the spider. At this stage, I can only speculate, but it may be that this spider has deliberately added the remains of this prey to the silk decoration on its web. There are one or two examples shown in some of my previous spottings of this species (see Notes below). As yet, I have not come across any scientific paper which confirms decoration building by this species, but there is a paper which mentions decorations made by Gasteracantha cancriformis, a closely related species - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-71552-5_15
Habitat:
Spotted this morning in the rice mill backyard, on its web which was moored between two young mango trees.
Notes:
My previous spottings of G. kuhli -
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/52020374
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1116762675
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1251366553
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1390102143
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1686793363
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1665805839
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