Ignore the dirty window lol. Had them in our house for over a week in that spot now, but this is the first time they turned around. I find the legs mesmerizing
That there is a spider.
You made me chuckle.
It’s a cross orbweaver or European garden spider (Araneus diadematus).
Yes, that’s it. Thanks!
Golden Orb Weavers are common in Australia. I took this pic back in 2016 to send to some of my friends back in the US who find a kind of intense fascination in spiders (and also in avoiding them). Note the banding on the legs, same as yours:
Seems like some sort of Orb Weaver (where hanging in a web is a clue): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider
Over here we call them cross spiders because of the cross pattern on their abdomen
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Img from spiderspotter.comI’ll raise you this picture with even more variations.
https://wiki.arages.de/images/c/c3/45_Araneus_diadematus.jpg
Beautiful!
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Gorgeous Spider, Orb Weaver, destroyer of flies, protector of your house.
Is everybody just completely misunderstanding what AskLemmy is supposed to be for? Are mods actually doing anything?
THANK YOU. This is absurd. People are treating this like it’s a search engine.
a spider
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