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Golden Silk Spider

Description

Golden Silk Spider. Large spider is female with two smaller males on the web. Females can attain lengths of 30-40 mm, while males are only 4-6 mm. Thesespiders feed primarily on flying insects which they capture in their webs whichcan attain greater than 1-meter diameter.Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Photographer

Brooke Vallaster

Display Date

2000

Location

Georgia, Sapelo Island

Collection

America's Coastlines
Southeast

NOAA Affiliation

NOAA

Keywords

Coastline
Southeast Georgia
Estuary