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It was hanging in a big spiderweb and was eating a prat. I have more pics but don’t know what kind of spider it is.
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- Submitted: Aug 28, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 28, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Heredia , Costa Rica
- Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
*prey
I have several shots of the same species, I think. Puntarenas Province, CR in early September, 2018.
It may be similar, but this one was found in San Rafael de Heredia, near the mountains in a relatively cold weather. I can’t still identify it.
Check out photo ID 48536 and see if you think it’s the same or different.
How do I search by Id?
Good question; I don’t know. I can see the photo IDs in the list of newly added unidentified photos.
Hi, I don’t think the search function for photo number exists yet. This site is still young and developing. If you go to the top right corner and click the three bar “more” symbol and go to locations you can chose the location where the photo was taken, in this case Costa Rica. Scan through the photos for the USERNAME of the person. If you click on a photo you’ll see the photo ID number. That is the easiest way for now.
It was obviously found in a web
Look at the golden silk weaver spiders in genus Nephila.
It looks definitely from the Nephilidae family, but still can’t say for sure what it is. Thumbs up!
That might explain why we saw a lot of much small spiders in the same web complex. Perhaps the smaller males or even spiderlings. Thanks for the suggestion, that looks promising.
According to one source the Nephila clavipes (AKA Banana Spider) is the only species in this genus native to continental North and South America. The few other photos I saw suggest this could be a match, though I’m not certain about that.