GOLDEN ORB-WEAVERS | A Guide to Australian Spiders

The “Obi wan spider” cause most of the time id see em is suddenly right in front of me all “Hello there.”.

Golden orb weavers are such impressive spiders, and I can confidently say that this video doubled my knowledge about their diversity and taxonomy. As usual your facts and knowledge are absolutely incredible, and the nonchalant way you talk about their ecology is very enjoyable to listen to. They remind me of the Trichonephila clavipes that we get back in the US, large but totally docile and inoffensive. Great work! - Harrison and Evan

I just love watching them set up their massive web every evening, but they always have it packed up and stored away by the next morning. Very hard working spiders.

1:16 I honestly want to see something like that outside in real life. I love that I finally got recommended this video! 😁

This man is enlightening me, and showing me that Australia has many underrated arachnids due to the pressence of the funnel webs and redbacks. I hope to see this channel thrive in some near future keep up the work

7:06 MAN! check out THOSE boxing gloves! my man is ready

Good content. I remember growing up in Brisbane, and this spider in particular, although harmless as you say, created a level of fear in me as a young bloke. That fear was usually associated from walking into one of it's webs, the strength of it like wire, and it's colouration was usually enough to keep me away.

Great 👍 show as usual ! These are beautiful looking spiders and pretty docile.

Love your content! Keep going!

Thanks for all the knowledge you are sharing. I can't get enough of it. I also love that you create your own illustrations. You should compile them all into a Spiders of Australia poster one day. Now I must share a spidery story... I remember a while back we had a bit of a spider boom here in Melbourne. It was around 2011 I think. SO MANY SPIDERS. Night time walks outside the house and around the garden were a glorious garden orb weaver minefield. A torch was essential to avoid them. They were the largest webs I've ever seen from those little guys. Some spanned 4m between the trees in the lawn Wolf spiders were running everywhere on the paving. Huntsmans chilling on the pine retaining walls. And every single gap in the block retaining walls were occupied by black house spiders. I've never seen such a spider number explosion since. It was fantastic. Now that summer also was the one time I saw what I now realise must have been a Trichonephila edulis. I saw it high up in a web in a eucalyptus, silhouetted against the sunset sky. It was impressively large, especially since it was a good distance high from ground level. At the time I had much less knowledge about spiders. But it looked distinctly Golden Orb Weaver from the size and shape. I thought that's impossible, since I was then under the impression they were a northern/tropical spider. So here I am happy to learn I wasn't crazy and that spider was indeed what I thought it was! Definately not a common suburban sight in Melbourne (and I live near a national park). I've not seen one since, but I plan to do a walk in said park to see if I can spot one as there are reported sightings. Also during the walk it had in my area when I spotted the Trichonephila edulis, further evidence of said spider boom; many garden orb weavers making a gauntlet of webs across a 20m section of the footpath. Yet another exciting yet out of the ordinary sight to behold for this part of urbanized Australia.

Where I used to live there was a stand of trees that was basically just a huge golden orb weaver city. It was about 5 metres wide by 30 metres long, and every branch was festooned with webs. It was really fascinating to observe. Sadly it was bulldozed to make way for a highway upgrade some years ago.

Loved the content. I live in Japan, where we have some of the golden orb weaver's relatives. I once found a female that had survived the winter!

this is awesome thanks for the video

I have one. Its the 2nd ive had. Very clever web weavers. I can still go in and out my laundry door with out disturbing her. She's beautiful. She's Been here for 3 weeks. ❤❤

Very interesting species of spider. I have a few of them in my back yard including the common orb weavers in North Texas. I tried not to run into their webs since they seem to build near the forest lol

These seem to be in plague proportions on the east coast of Australia atm. Where you find one, you find hundreds.

Trichonephila clavipes is pretty common here in Florida. I leave them alone as I'm not a fan of spiders on my person, but they're super cool to look at in nature. There's a park near Cocoa Beach where there seemed to be one in every tree. I've always wanted them in my backyard as a way to kill mosquitos.

The nephila usually puts it's webs on electricity lines which is why here in Philippines we call them gagambang kuryente

Thanks B&B for the video. What’s the wet patch she appears to be depositing on your hand from what appears to be the underside of her head as she moves, somewhere between 2mins,55 seconds and 3 minute mark? It looks like water.

"They are as useless as a shoeshop in the Shire." Bro that one is really underrated man. 😂