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DENISCHKA UYS van Durbanville skryf: Ek het hierdie spinnekop in ons tuin gesien. Dit het vir ’n paar dae op dieselfde plek gesit en daar was babaspinnekoppe in kleiner webbe rondom dit. Watter soort spinnekop is dit? Die insekkenner DUNCAN MACFADYEN antwoord: Wat ’n mooi tuinwawielwebspinnekop (Argiope australis)! Die spesie word aan die duidelike geel en grys strepe op hulle agterlyf en gestreepte bene uitgeken. Soos die meeste spinnekoppe hou die tuinwawielwebspinnekop geen gevaar vir mense in nie en speel dit ’n belangrike rol in die beheer van plae in jou tuin. Hulle vreet insekte en kan prooi wat twee keer so groot soos hulle is, jag. Die wyfies is baie groter as die mannetjies en die mannetjies sit dikwels na aan die rand van die web. Hulle heg hulle…

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