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Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) (11/11)
Araneae: Araneidae
Cyrtophora molucensis
 04.jpg "Geoff Walker: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 08/04/2016")
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© Geoff Walker 2016
The Gap, QLD (Apr, 2016)
Common Names
- Dome Web Spider
- Tent Spider
To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.*
A Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis), paralyses its prey for a future meal.
*From Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy
Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
 01.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 05/09/2012")
Female Tent Spider
 02.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 05/09/2012")
Tent Spider Webs
 04.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 05/09/2012")
Tent Spider Webs
 03.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 05/09/2012")
Female Tent Spider eating
 05.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 23/05/2014")
Tent Spider
 06.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 23/05/2014")
Tent Spider
 07.jpg "Vik: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 23/05/2014")
Tent Spider
 01.jpg "Geoff: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 07/04/2016")
Dome Web Spider
 02.jpg "Geoff: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 07/04/2016")
Dome Web Spider
 03.jpg "Geoff: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 08/04/2016")
Dome Web Spider
 04.jpg "Geoff: Tent Spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis) - 08/04/2016")
Dome Web Spider