Wolf Spider
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Wolf Spider

Daddy Long-legs, Pholcus phalangioides, and egg bundle.
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Daddy Long-legs, Pholcus phalangioides, and egg bundle.

Silver Orb-weaver.
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Silver Orb-weaver.

Garden spider, Eriophora transmarina
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Garden spider, Eriophora transmarina

Golden Orb-weaver, Nephila plumipes, missing two legs. This seemed to make it quite difficult for her to capture prey.
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Golden Orb-weaver, Nephila plumipes, missing two legs.

This seemed to make it quite difficult for her to capture prey.

Daddy Long-legs, Pholcus phalangioides. Its a myth that the Daddy Long-legs venom is the most potent amongst spiders, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin.
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Daddy Long-legs, Pholcus phalangioides.

Its a myth that the Daddy Long-legs venom is the most potent amongst spiders, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin.

Pholcid spider, “Daddy Long-legs”, moulting. Perhaps Pholcus phalangioides
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Pholcid spider, “Daddy Long-legs”, moulting. Perhaps Pholcus phalangioides

Golden Orb-weaver male, perhaps Nephila plumipes
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Golden Orb-weaver male, perhaps Nephila plumipes

Golden Orb-weaver female, perhaps Nephila plumipes
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Golden Orb-weaver female, perhaps Nephila plumipes

Hogg’s Wolf Spider, Hoggicosa forresti.

Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia.

H. forresti can be found in South-west Western Australia and southern South Australia.

There are ten species in the genus, all with very striking colouration. They are a large wolf spider that live in trapdoor burrows.

In Australia there are currently recognised 168 wolf spider species in 28 genera

Spitting Spider, family Scytodidae. Thanks very much originalbugnerd for the ID!
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Spitting Spider, family Scytodidae.

Thanks very much originalbugnerd for the ID!

Unidentified Pholcidae spider
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Unidentified Pholcidae spider

Grey Huntsman spider, Haliconia sp. clearly showing a re-grown leg. Monadnocks Conservation Reserve
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Grey Huntsman spider, Haliconia sp. clearly showing a re-grown leg.

Monadnocks Conservation Reserve

Unidentified Heteropodidae (formerly Sparassidae), Huntsman spider. Perhaps Neosparassus sp. Monadnocks Conservation Reserve, Western Australia
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Unidentified Heteropodidae (formerly Sparassidae), Huntsman spider.

Perhaps Neosparassus sp.

Monadnocks Conservation Reserve, Western Australia

Prowling Spider, Mituliodon tarantulinus. One I’ve not photographed before. Monadnocks Conservation Reserve, Western Australia. Thanks Robert Whyte of arachne.org.au for the ID.
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Prowling Spider, Mituliodon tarantulinus.

One I’ve not photographed before.

Monadnocks Conservation Reserve, Western Australia.

Thanks Robert Whyte of arachne.org.au for the ID.