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- The group has only recently been raised to family level status. It
includes the Australia's biggest spiders, the Golden Orb Weavers. They were formerly grouped in the families
Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.
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Unlike the spiders in Araneidae family which first wrap their prey in silk after capture and then bites it,
spiders in this family bite the prey first and then wrap with silk.
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- Golden Orb-Weaver
 - Nephila plumipes, leg to leg 100mm
- The spider makes golden webs. The head is covered with silver hairs. The
fangs are large and strong. The body is uniform yellow brown to silver grey.
The legs are long and black with yellow joints and can span the width of an
average adult hand. There is the detail information in this Golden
Orb-Weaver
page.
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- Leaf Curling Spider
  - Phonognatha graeffei., body length 12mm
- The Leaf Curling Spiders build web. They always build a retreat on the
upper side of their web. Usually they build the retreat by a dry leaf. They
stay inside their retreat, put their forelegs on their web and sense if any
prey come into their web. They are brown in colour with white marking on
their abdomen. More information and picture please click here.
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- Reference:
- 1. Nephilidae.com-
A web resource for nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae) version 1.3a (23 May 2007) by Matjaž Kuntner.
- 2. NEPHILIDAE Simon, 1894 - Australian Biological Resources Study
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