r/AustralianInsects • u/MrManTas69 • 3d ago

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I live in Southern Tasmania and I have noticed these spiders I have never seen before clustering together in webs with the weirdest spikey egg sacs

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u/Feisty-Broccoli-366 3d ago

Not an expert by any means, but looks like a social house spider.

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u/Feisty-Broccoli-366 3d ago

Here is a photo of a freaky looking egg sac that looks like the one in your pictures! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103672480

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u/Dense_Passenger4174 3d ago

I have a family of them . They are okay ☺️

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u/Hella_Star_Mang 3d ago

Could be a hackled orb-weaver

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u/ReachMaleficent 3d ago

Could we get a worse picture please?