Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
This is no macro shot
Of a small spider
Up close,
But a photo of one
That is bigger than most.
Sized to barely fit
In the palm of a man,
It clung to a web
That could use
A steadier hand.
For the Lens-Artists Challenge: Big
Trivia: Giant Golden Orb Weavers (Nephilia Pilipes) are named for the way their intricate webs shimmer in the light. Females can grow to 20 centimeters (8 inches!!) in size and have a long slim, black body with golden spots on their back, and long skinny legs (the males are about 10 times smaller, sorry guys). Female Giant Golden Orb Weavers can build gigantic webs that can span 2 meters (6-7 feet!!) across, often between large trees, where they can be seen resting on their webs and protecting their territory (yep, that’s exactly what the photo we took above depicts). They bite their prey to immobilize it, and though their bite is not dangerous to humans, if you do get bitten by one of these mega-spiders, I cannot guarantee that you will not have LOTR-style nightmares of massive arachnids coming to get you.
Na'ama Yehuda 
Wow. You look and think so. Then you read and are completely blown a way. This was a great share, thank you. 🙏❤
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Yep. Massive! I was not prepared for running into this in the jungles of Chiang Mai, I can tell you that!
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Definitely not its bits Na’Ama! We have these near my home and they always startle me with their size. But they are surely beautiful!
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Yep. Not Itsy Bitsy at all … 🙂 sure did startle me in the jungles of Thailand! My camera didn’t capture it well, but my niece’s did!
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thanks for the spider info – those females can get so big and I am curious as to what the trees looked like that held this – anyhow – awesome post
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Thanks! It was … un … awesome … to practically run into in the jungles of Chiang Mai this August. Can tell you it most certainly stopped me and my family in our tracks … Yikes! Beautiful but MASSIVE! …
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and thanks for sharing it with the world (via blogosphere)
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My sort-of-pleasure … 😉
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“)
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Spiders are not my favourite and gigantic ones definitely not and yet , here I am confessing to enjoying a post about gigantic spiders . Great going!
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🙂 It is safe enough and far enough to enjoy on a post … It was a little more jarring practically running into this behemoth in the jungles of Chiang Mai (the photo does not quite convey the alarm …), but, at least we knew we didn’t LIVE in that jungle and the likelihood of seeing this in real life on a regular basis was … small.
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Oooo, not fun reading about the size – but it sure is beautiful, and BIG
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Yep. Especially beautiful from AFAR … 😉 BIG, yeah … 😉 Na’ama
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Definitely not itsy bitsy at all 🙂
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Nope. More like huge! 😉
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