Araneus marmoreus spiders, "Araneus marmoreus" hides in a silken retreat to the side of the web (at the end of the signal thread). In adults, the retreat is made of leaves folded over and held together with silk. Immature spiders make their retreats out of silk only. Egg cocoons, which contain several hundred eggs, are generally deposited in October and are constructed of white silk formed in a flattened sphere. Immature spiders emerge from the cocoons in spring. Adults are seen from midsummer until the first hard freeze of fall. Like other orbweavers, the marbled orbweaver is not considered a medically important
False garden mantis False garden mantis The false garden mantis ("Pseudomantis albofimbriata") is one of the most common species of mantis in Australia. Females reach 70 mm while males reach 50 mm. The false garden mantis is either green or brown but rarely may come in other colours. They have a distinctive dark spot on the femur of each raptorial foreleg. Females have short wings that only cover half of the abdomen, whereas Males have wings that cover the full length of the abdomen. Males sometimes have yellow triangular markings on the underside of the abdomen. They are widely distributed over Australia and