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Natasha, the Golden Silk Spider (Nephila clavipes) Frank's Home My Story My Pictures My Videos My Diary Learn about Spiders Our Garden Zoo   Here you can find an assortment of videos of Natasha, the golden silk spider, in her daily routine. Click on the thumbnails below to watch these videos of Natasha. Videos of Natasha A video of Natasha weaving radial and circumferential compoenents of her web. (10 mb) Here Natasha flips over the top of the web and later catches a fly. (10 mb) Here Natasha appears to wash after a rainstorm. (10 mb) See Natasha in nighttime action with a new acrobatic move. (15 mb) Natasha Repairing her Web, Weaving, Talking, Eating Reparing the web, probably from last nights insect harvest Finishing a row and starting from the top Another segment from the top Finishing from the other end and reversing Quiet weaving, then I accidentally disturbed her ... October 3 - Wrapping and Preparing a Fly for Breakfast Early morning wrapping a fly for later Wrapping in silk and dropping Pick up and prepare Breakfast? Back to weaving my web and I continue to weave October 4 - Catching a Fly, Reinforcing my Web, and Breakfast Reinforcing the web with a long strand then swinging back - like a high wire act at the circus Looking like she is gluing stuff together And now, over the top for top-side repairs A Variety of Behaviors (Including Weaving) Inspection and lauching an attack - poor fly (10 Mb) Chris Badea's post processing of the above: AVI - DivX (15 Mb) Much sharper Oct 8 night: new acrobatic positions + hunting by night (10 Mb) Oct 11 : weaving radial and circumferential fibers (10 Mb) Oct 12 : How to weave a web - note use of legs to guide gluing (10 Mb) <--- Return to my pictures or Visit my diary ---> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.