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Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver [2]) is a species of golden orb-web spider. It resides all over countries in East and Southeast Asia as well as Oceania. It is commonly found in primary and secondary forests and gardens. Females are large and grow to a body size of 30–50 mm (overall size up to 20 cm ...
Golden Spider Silk Cape made from Madagascar golden orb-weaver spider silk, Victoria and Albert Museum, London [28] There have been several efforts in the past to produce garments from Nephila silk although none commercially viable. [29] These include two bed hangings that were shown at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. [30]
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]
Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk. The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y".
The species belongs to a group of large spiders known as golden orb-web weavers, according to the University of Georgia, which make "enormous, multi-layered webs of gold-colored silk."
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]
Queensland citizen-entomologist Lisa Van Kula Donovan captured the frightfully beautiful moment she gently pulled open a Golden Orb Weaver’s egg sac, releasing dozens of baby spiders into the ...
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.