Queensland, Australia
There where multiple of them not seen in the picture so the spider seems communal, I had seen up to 5 of them at one point
Couldn’t get a clearer picture because it’s been raining on and off and I didn’t want to get my hands and phone near an unidentified spider
Tried googling but couldn’t identify it
Edit: I’m also pretty sure it had caught an insect in this picture
It’s an orb-weaver, so it’s harmless. Should be one of those: https://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2627
Managed to get a clearer picture today
Looks like a [https://www.google.com/search?q=humped+silver+orb+weaver&udm=2](silver orb weaver) to me
Question about the orb weavers, is there always a female near the males or can the males live without a female ?
They do live separately from each other until the males reach maturity. Then they’ll abandon their own webs and go searching for the ladies. The reason you often find a male (or sometimes multiple) hanging out in a females web is, that the female hasn’t reached maturity, yet. So the males will just hang out and wait till she’s ready.
Australia, you say? Well, i just so happen to know that’s the, get-40-fucking-meters-further-away spider, from the genus, ahhhhhustraliackus.
Hope that helps. ;p
