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Giant Wood Spider (Nephila maculata)

Bandipur, Karnataka, Nov 2004

A fully grown Giant Wood Spider can be as wide as your palm and weave webs which are almost a meter in diameter. Our jeep stopped right under this one's cobweb and I shot the picture from right under the spider. Thats why the web appears to be horizontal.


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