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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]
Similar types of spider webs are created outside by Theridiidae spiders which include Steatoda nobilis, otherwise called the Noble False Widow Spider. Their tangled web is often in the shape of a ...
Argiope appensa, also referred to as the Hawaiian garden spider [2] or banana spider, is an orb-weaving spider belonging to the family Araneidae. Distribution and habitat [ edit ]
It is the banana spider’s doppelganger, the Brazilian Wandering Spider, that was named the most venomous animal in 2007 by the Guinness Book of World Records. To tell the two apart, take a ...
Banana spider may refer to: Cupiennius, a South and Central American genus of spiders; Phoneutria, also known as Brazilian wandering spiders, a related South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders; Golden silk orb-weaver (Nephila), a widespread genus of large but rather harmless spiders, noted for their large durable webs
Banana spiders in South Carolina can grow to be quite large, which may be alarming to any unsuspecting passerby who happens to cross one’s path. In addition, they can be quite brightly colored.
Argiope sp. sitting on the stabilimentum at the center of the web Spiderlings in the web near where they hatched Close-up of the cephalothorax on Eriophora sp. (possibly E. heroine or E. pustuosa) Gasteracantha cancriformis Araneidae web Araneidae waiting on its web for prey. Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs ...
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History.