Golden orb weaver and Australian jewel spider
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2021
- Webs of the Golden orb weaver (formerly known as Nephila edulis, but now called Trichonephila edulis) are up to one metre in diameter, and can generally be found wrapped around the head of the most arachnophobic person in the bushwalking group. The 'arachnophobe dance', while amusing to onlookers, will fail to remove the strong web and enormous sticky cache of insect corpses from the unfortunate victim's hair and eyelashes - the strength of orb webs is a remarkable feat of engineering. When an insect hits an orb web, the capture threads can stretch to 2.7 times their original length as they absorb the insect’s energy. On rare occasions the strong webs may accidentally entangle small birds and bats. While harmless to humans, the 4cm female orb weaver is an impressive sight, although the same cannot be said for the 1-6 diminutive males that cautiously freeload on her web. The beautiful Australian jewel spider (Austracantha minax) builds a circular web between shrubs, although sometimes this is reduced to a few supporting strands. They are harmless to humans, though they are most abundant during the summer months, so jewel spider web-in-face is also a common event for bushwalkers.
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If you can wrap several strands of the orb spider web together it's easier to see, the strands are golden color. People have made silken fibre garments from farming these delicate beauties. I'm astonished by the way, to note this as I only recently saw a video about this
Hello THoCoomera, that's amazing - I didn't know that this had been done. I imagine the garments would be more elastic than lycra, and far stronger! Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. I hope you are having a marvellous week
That chubby jeweled spider looks like it could be a Pokemon character 😄
We have these huge, scary but totally harmless orb-weavers in WA too, plus the little Christmas spiders, some species are Australia wide! What hardy animals achieve that! The Christmas spiders have a mild bite, I put my arm down on one that had accidentally crawled onto my thigh and it bit me, causing a mosquito like bite, ie. little red mark, gone after 2 days... I like both species, very much 😊 thanks for your videos
Hello Tas, that's rotten luck getting bitten by a Christmas spider. Now I think about it though, I am constantly wearing the webs in my careless crashing through the undergrowth, and I guess I probably have been bitten, but assumed that it was just a sandfly. Thank you for your amazing support. Stay safe.
Thank you for sharing this beauty. Lovely footage. Interesting movie.
Wish you a pleasant Sunday.
Best regards, Knut.
Hello Knut, thank you for your continued support and encouragement. I hope you are having a lovely week :)
Thank you. ◕‿◕
Thanks for this particular upload; for pointing out the beehives in the background, cause I was wondering how the European bees got into her web. Love that jewel spider too. They are awesome.
Hello Valerie, thank you for watching and for taking the time to share your thoughts. I hope you are enjoying an awesome weekend.
I watched some videos from this Channel and they are astonishing! Wildlife is something we can rarely grasp or understand.
As an Example is the Q&A comment that had to be made on the Wallaby with the Ticks Video.
Thank you all for caring for these beautiful creatures and for sharing precious moments with us!
I've got a Jewel Spider in the garden infront of my bedroom window. The way it's made its web looks awesome.. It makes its web with the ability to stretch with the swaying plants in the wind.. I'll make a video and upload it... Never seen a web like it before. Very impressive. And a very beautiful/dangerous looking spider. Esp with the spikes..
Didn't even know about the Christmas spiders, they are absolutely gorgeous. Spiders here in Europe don't usually look this cool. Also, it is amazing that they are almost harmless, seeing their colour one might think otherwise.
Appreciate what you're doing guys, absolutely fantastic.
I've only ever seen one jewel spider, not knowing what it was it looked scary haha. Thanks for your great info.
Beautiful.
Love orb weaver
Beautiful
Relating to the tik videos, what happens to the affected animals when there are no crows around?
Hello GT, when there is a heavy tick infestation that remains in place over along period of time it results in immense inflammation leading to restricted blood flow, necrosis and eventually sloughing of the affected tissue. The older wallabies have all lost areas of skin and the top half of their ears due this process, however we have not observed any deaths that could be directly attributed to the ticks. In summary, while the ticks certainly cause misery and suffering, they are less catastrophic than drought, land clearing and clueless urban cowboys with firearms.
Thats beautiful creature
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Hello Luca, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
that's an awesome creature, great capture.
Damn those spiders are scary asf 😆
Where in the world is this stunning wildlife reserve located? I just watched the Royal Spoonbill video and I’m in awe of this amazing place, and your amazing filmmaking skills.
Hello Jonathon, thank you so much for your very kind words of encouragement. We are on the Darling Downs in South East Queensland. I hope you are enjoying an awesome weekend. Take care
this is the stuff of nightmares
EHHHHHH I DON'T LIKE SPIDERS BUT I JUST WATCH IT ANYWAY. (also I subscribed)
Hello Mr Wendigo, thank you for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts. I hope you are enjoying a lovely week. Stay safe.
Lots of bees. Fees like a good sign - not because they’re dying but because there seems to be a lot of them around.
Hi Andy, a bee keeper had placed a number of nuc hives nearby, and they did very well on the strong annual weed flowering on the creek flat. It has been a really hard couple of years for bees.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge yeah it seems like it’s been tough for almost all insects everywhere. I hate to do a “when I was a kid...” moment but there were lots of insects around that I just never see anymore.
@@andyl8055 I couldn't agree more - I was doing exactly the same thing this week. How is it that you can now drive a car on a sunny day after rain and end up with zero insects on the windscreen? :(
@@GubanaNatureRefuge There are some early papers on this and a youtuber has put them up in his links It's Verge Science and if you search his title "Is the “insect apocalypse” real?' the search throws up a few videos on the idea. Science .. you can't call it scientific with out rigours results; but if no one is doing the science, then it's just hearsay and hyperbole. That's just wrong really. Because science is a business and this sort of prelim research has not reached it's notoriety yet.
Good captures. Do any animals besides humans prey upon these spiders? Seems like they would be easy pickin's for a predator.
Hello RA, you would think that given they spend all of their life exposed on their webs, golden orb weavers would be quickly harvested by birds; yet predation by birds has rarely been observed. The biggest predator of golden orb weavers are the larvae of a moth (Anatrachyntis terminella) which hatch inside the spider's egg sac and eat up to 60% of the developing young.
We get a couple of them out the back yard each year and they keep away the flies
Those poor little bees!😢 move the spiders out of there! We NEED the bees, not spiders!
Maybe it’s from the way it’s shot or maybe it’s because spiders just seem to be bigger in Australia, but man that’s a large pretty girl!
She’s kinda like Lady D(whatever her name is) from that new resident evil game, with a little male simp included