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St Andrew's Cross Spider
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St Andrew's Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ribbons of bluish-white silk that form a full or partial cross through the centre of the orb web.

Foliage Webbing Spider
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Young Foliage Webbing Spiders delay their dispersal and live together in communal nests built on plant foliage until they reach the subadult stage.

Fringed Jumping Spider
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Fringed Jumping spiders are specialist spider-eating spiders which have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years due to their extremely varied and adaptable prey capture techniques, their ability to learn from previous experience, and to solve mazes from observation.

Leaf-curling Spider
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The Leaf-curling Spiders (genus Phonognatha) are day-active orb weaving spiders that protect themselves from predators by sitting inside a silk seamed, curled leaf.

Marbled Scorpion
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A small, slender species that is found under tree bark, or on the ground under rocks and in leaf litter (and sometimes in houses) across southern Australia.

Lynx Spider
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Lynx spiders are roving hunters commonly associated with the shrubby and grassy understorey of Sydney's forests and woodlands, heathlands and suburban gardens.

Magnificent Spider
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The Magnificent Spider, as one of the Bolas spider group, has evolved a highly sophisticated way of capturing prey using a single line of sticky silk to capture moths.

Water Spider
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Water spiders are found across Australia in a variety of habitats. Many species are free-living hunters, but some make webs.

Hackled orb-weavers
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Despite having no venom to assist them in subduing prey, Hackled Orb-weavers, also known as Venomless Spiders, are quite a diverse and successful group in Australia.

White Porch Spider
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White Porch Spiders are commonly found living on the outside of houses in parts of Eastern Australia.