Queensland, Australia

There where multiple of them not seen in the picture so the spider seems communal, I had seen up to 5 of them at one point

Couldn’t get a clearer picture because it’s been raining on and off and I didn’t want to get my hands and phone near an unidentified spider

Tried googling but couldn’t identify it

Edit: I’m also pretty sure it had caught an insect in this picture

  • x4740N@lemm.eeOP
    1·
    4 days ago

    Question about the orb weavers, is there always a female near the males or can the males live without a female ?

    • remon
      2·
      4 days ago

      They do live separately from each other until the males reach maturity. Then they’ll abandon their own webs and go searching for the ladies. The reason you often find a male (or sometimes multiple) hanging out in a females web is, that the female hasn’t reached maturity, yet. So the males will just hang out and wait till she’s ready.