Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb weaver (Micrathena) biting a flying ant caught in its web prior to eating it, Napo Province, Ecuadorian Amazon. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Emanuele Biggi / Ant mimic orb weaving spider (Micrathena sp) Peru.

Ingo Arndt / Arrow-shaped orbweaver spider {Microthena brevipes} Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Arrow-shaped orbweaver spider {Microthena sagittata} Florida, USA.

Ingo Arndt / Arrow-shaped orbweaver spider {Microthena sagittata} Florida, USA.

MYN / Javier Aznar / Spider (Micratena cyanospina) Cuyabeno National Park, Ecuador. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Pete Oxford / Arrow-shaped Micrathena (Micrathena sp) Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, South America.

MYN / Clay Bolt / Arrowhead Micrathena (Micrathena sp) Kanuku Mountains, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Clay Bolt / Arrowshaped Micrathena (Micrathena sagittata) Southern Appalachians, South Carolina, United States. Meetyourneighbours.net project