"orb weaver"

#13445938

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13445942

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13445953

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13445958

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13445970

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13445980

14 Mar 2026

A long-jawed orb weaver spider builds a web beneath a wildflower to catch prey, camouflaged against the leaves, while ants move across the surface in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on March 14, 2026. Long-jawed orb weavers are ecologically significant as specialized riparian predators that help control flying insect populations near water sources.

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#13282973

7 Feb 2026

A St. Andrew's cross spider uses a large web in open areas to trap flying insects in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on February 7, 2026.

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#13282974

7 Feb 2026

A St. Andrew's cross spider uses a large web in open areas to trap flying insects in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on February 7, 2026.

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#13068767

7 Dec 2025

A juvenile abandoned-web orb-weaver spider (Parawixia dehaani), also known as a common garden spider, captures a black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) in its web in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 7, 2025. The spider immobilises the insect with silk and saliva before retreating behind a dry leaf.

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#13068771

7 Dec 2025

A juvenile abandoned-web orb-weaver spider (Parawixia dehaani), also known as a common garden spider, captures a black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) in its web in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 7, 2025. The spider immobilises the insect with silk and saliva before retreating behind a dry leaf.

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#12978679

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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#12978682

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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#12978687

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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#12978689

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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#12978699

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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#12978701

12 Nov 2025

The kidney garden spider, or pale orb weaver (Bijoaraneus mitificus), rests on a leaf in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, on Nov. 11, 2025. The small species, found across South, East and Southeast Asia, has a distinctive kidney-shaped marking on its abdomen and builds orb-shaped webs. It creates a silk ''hideaway'' in a curled leaf connected to the web by a tripwire.

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