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Spiders
Nephila pilipes
(Giant Golden Orbweaver)

Female and Male on the same web
With Cicada prey

Female is the beautiful big sized spider while Male is the tiny all red colour spider. Only realised the male spider was there on the web after reviewing pics on hp!

°Observed a female Brettus cingulatus guarding the egg sac. After few days, observed a male mating with the same female over the egg sac.

The female was guarding the eggs for few days and unfortunately the female gone missing(not sure if it was dead).

After few days the spiderlings hatched and they were all alone for 2 days.

The next day we observed a female Brettus near the hatched egg sac and thought that the mother has returned, which was not the case. It was an unknown female, which was feeding on the spiderlings. All the spiderlings were killed and eaten by the unknown female°