Black Nephila sp.(probably?!?) free range and feeding pics.

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Her she is in her little nest she's made on top of her web.

 

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A king mealworm "flew" into her web, she's out to get it.

 

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She caught it!

 

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She's really fat and about 5" legspann.

 

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Preparing her meal...

 

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And this her home, my kitchen window.

 

[Steven]

damn,...

do you keep a giant spider in every room or so?
wich species lives in your bathroom? :}

5" legspan,.... woooooooooohooooooooo :}

 

[Crotalus]

Doesnt look like a Nephila sp. but who knows

/Lelle

 

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That is the problem, I know it doesn't look like a Nephila but I'm sure that it's origin is Madagscar. From what I've heard the only "giant" orbwebers found there are Nephilas or Nephlingys. Nephilengys doesn't grow that big though. It actually looks like a giant black widow. Another thing is that Nephilas usually have a slight yellow-orange web and this ones is pure white.

Nephila or not, that's the question...anyone who's got a suggestion?:?

 

[Jakob]

Is there any way you could post a picture of the entire web with a black piece of cardboard behind it? Or anything that'll make it show up? That would help, too. It's the abdominal shape that has me puzzled on this one:?

Jake

 

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I will try to get a piece of black cardboard tomorrow. Have you any adeas of what species it might be?

take care!
martin

 

[Malhavoc's]

sure doesnt look like a fie inch legspan maybe the size of a black widow..a lil bigger..

 

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Well it is...Look at the Zophobas mealworm they are about 2-2,5" and that's about the size of the spiders body, and then put some leggs on that as well.

 

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I checked it just to be sure, it's 11 cm and that's about 4-4,5"

 

[Longbord1]

appears to me to be a nephila cuz it has this certain marking right where the epiclastic furrow that mine had so i d say uve got one
mike

 

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JakeRocks>>>

This is the best web picture I could get. I couldn't put the black cardboard cus there are alot of webbing behind the big web as well. The web is about 80 X 40 cm(34" X 16").

Hope this could help.