Description

These incredible spiders mimic bird droppings to a near perfect degree, even placing patches of white silk around them on the leaf they sit on to seal the mimicry!

Celaenia excavata is a technically a species of orb-weaver (family Araneidae) that has abandoned building webs, instead they are ambush predators, sitting motionless until prey walks by. They are small, reaching 7mm in length.

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