Hortophora biapicata

Unknown.

Found throughout Australia.

A heavily built and hairy spider that comes in a variety of colours and patterns. They are from 15 millimetres (male) – 30 millimetres (female) long.

These are the common garden spiders that make that familiar vertical orb-web, often at face level. The web is usually eaten after a night’s use and renewed the next evening. During the day the spiders remain in hiding nearby. It eats night-flying insects but is not poisonous to humans.

We have photographed this species throughout the year.

Identification courtesy of David Knowles.

Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9a6a5e1c-5302-40e4-b831-c4175b49f2ea

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