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Golden Silk Spider. Large spider is female with two smaller males on the web. Females can attain lengths of 30-40 mm, while males are only 4-6 mm. Thesespiders feed primarily on flying insects which they capture in their webs whichcan attain greater than 1-meter diameter.Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. (Image credit: Brooke Vallaster)
Photographer
Brooke Vallaster
Display Date
2000
Location
Georgia, Sapelo Island
Category
America's Coastlines
Southeast
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA
Keywords
Coastline
Southeast Georgia
Estuary