st andrew's cross spider
another find at bkt timah. the st andrew's cross spider
found it along the main road near to the summit. it is very very little, cream-coloured and looks as if he has only 4 legs. the fella is maybe less than 1cm in diameter. when you come down from the summit, after you passed some logs, look to your right, you will see his web on a plant at maybe just 0.5m above the ground. it is opposite the storyboard on squirrels.
Extract from Australian Museum website
found it along the main road near to the summit. it is very very little, cream-coloured and looks as if he has only 4 legs. the fella is maybe less than 1cm in diameter. when you come down from the summit, after you passed some logs, look to your right, you will see his web on a plant at maybe just 0.5m above the ground. it is opposite the storyboard on squirrels.
Extract from Australian Museum website
St Andrew's Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ribbons of bluish-white silk that form a full or partial cross through the centre of the orb web. Females have a silvery carapace and a silver, yellow, red and black banded upper abdomen with two longitudinal yellow stripes below. The spider sits with the legs in pairs. The brown and cream coloured males are smaller than females (body lengths 3 - 4 mm and 10 - 16 mm respectively).
posted by nan at 2:04 PM
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hey hey! next time you are going up to BT, lemme know ok? i need to work out man, been putting on alot of weight...
just a note to say that the st andrew's is gone. the other day i pointed it out to my nephew who disturbed him by blowing on this web before i cld stop him. the spider jumped down in fright and was never seen again.... :(
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