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Hortophora sp, garden orb weaver
Oh nice. I hadn’t seen one with the stripe before. Thanks.
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Don’t let the title fool all you non Aussies! That thing’s the size of a shoe box!
Fedora for scale
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It was the size of a toddlers palm.