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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Golden Orb-weavers (Trichonephila) » Golden Silk Orbweaver (Trichonephila clavipes)
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Mating Pair of Golden Silk Orbweavers - Trichonephila clavipes - male - female
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Mating Pair of Golden Silk Orbweavers - Trichonephila clavipes - Male Female
Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA
July 22, 2014
I am just starting to find mature Nephila clavipes. This female molted on the night of July 21. The next day, with her exuviae still dangling from the molting thread, three enterprising males were already in her web. (I guess that is a pretty safe time for the males to court her, while her fangs are still soft.)

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Contributed by Ungoliant on 23 July, 2014 - 11:19pm

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