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Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider (a name shared with several others), is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina. [3]
Araneus illaudatus, commonly called the Texas orb-weaver, is a species of spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It has a rather restricted range in western Texas and eastern Arizona. The female is a very large, hairy orb-weaver, up to 25 mm in length (excluding legs). The overall color is a dirty white, sometimes with a pinkish tinge.
Female seen from below. Trichonephila clavata pass winter as eggs and scatter as tiny juveniles in the spring. Like most spiders, females are much larger than males. The adult female's body size is 17–25 millimetres (0.67–0.98 in) while the male's is 7–10 millimetres (0.28–0.39 in).
Orb weaver spiders. What they look like: These are the spiders that build huge webs that you can see in the morning covered in dew. “Orb weavers spin their web each day and then tear it down and ...
Nephila spiders produce large asymmetric orb webs up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter. [citation needed] Nephila species remain in their webs permanently, so have a higher predation risk. The golden silk orb-weaver is named for the yellow color of the spider silk used to construct these webs. Yellow threads of their web shine like gold in sunlight.
Nephilidae is a spider family commonly referred to as golden orb-weavers. [1] The various genera in the Nephilidae family were formerly placed in Tetragnathidae and Araneidae . All nephilid genera partially renew their webs.
The species belongs to a group of large spiders known as golden orb-web ... a type of orb weaver spider native to Japan where it is called joro-gumo or joro spider, waits in its web for prey ...
Trichonephila is a genus of golden orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila. [2] Trichonephila was elevated to a genus by Kuntner et al. in 2019. [3]