A nursery-web spider's densely woven nursery web on briar rose

            This web was woven by Dolomedes minor, a spider in the family Pisauridae that is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known as the nursery web spider. 
 The spider has a body length of about 18 mm. The females are almost twice the size of the males. They move very fast and possess a long leg-span: over sixty millimeters for a fully grown female.
Initially the female carries around an egg sac but when the spiderlings are ready to hatch she builds her nursery web, which is not made to catch prey but to ‘nurse’ young. This is made at night and built amongst and at the tips of foliage. It can be around six inches or more in length and will house the eggs and young. At night the females guard the web will move towards the base of the vegetation. The spiderlings will emerge shortly after the web's construction, usually within a week or after they have changed skin, and after two weeks most young will have left the nest.
   

Taken on: November 13, 2021

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Steve Attwood

New Zealand

Canterbury

Banks Peninsula

Auldwood Photography

Nursery web spider

web

spider web

Dolomedes minor

Arachnid

rose

briar rose

Lake Ellesmere

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Sets appears in: • Banks Peninsula • NZ animals (not birds)

Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II, f/8.0, 1/3200 sec, 250mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	250mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode:	Spot
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384
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