Down here we get quite a few orb-weaving spiders and I've walked into a few webs. Never fun. A bit (and I do mean only a bit) of research suggests we get several spp of Nephila: N. edulis, N. plumipes and N. ornata and the St Andrews Cross spider Argiope aetherea.
However in Queensland they get the much bigger Nephila maculata . This specimen was found near Somerset at the tip of Cape York Penninsular in 1989 (it took me a while to find and scan the original). That's my hand in the background. I wasn't worried and no kimbies were used. I know that web-dwelling spiders will not jump out and attack me. Anyway, haven't you heard of depth-of-field. 
Last edited by AstralTraveller; 27-10-2008 at 11:15 AM.
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