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St Andrew's Cross Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/st-andrews-cross-spider/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.
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Foliage Webbing Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/foliage-webbing-spider/Young Foliage Webbing Spiders delay their dispersal and live together in communal nests built on plant foliage until they reach the subadult stage.
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Fringed Jumping Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/fringed-jumping-spider/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.
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Leaf-curling Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/leaf-curling-spider/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.
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Marbled Scorpion
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/marbled-scorpion-lychas-marmoreus/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.
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Lynx Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/lynx-spider/Lynx spiders are roving hunters commonly associated with the shrubby and grassy understorey of Sydney's forests and woodlands, heathlands and suburban gardens.
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Magnificent Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/magnificent-spider/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.
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Water Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/water-spider/Water spiders are found across Australia in a variety of habitats. Many species are free-living hunters, but some make webs.
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Hackled orb-weavers
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/hackled-orb-weavers/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.
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White Porch Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/white-porch-spider/White Porch Spiders are commonly found living on the outside of houses in parts of Eastern Australia.
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