The Enamelled Spider is common in Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria and parts of Queensland. It waits for prey in its sloping web at night and often retreats to surrounding vegetation in the day. Its prey is small flying insects. Its round, red-brown woolly silk egg sac is flat on the bottom where it is fastened. It contains eggs 1 mm in diameter in a sticky mass. ♀ 18mm ♂ 9mm
Yellow form, ACT
![Araneu bradleyi](../_dbase_upl/araneusbradleyi.jpg)
Photo: Tony Wood
Yellow form, Victoria
![Araneus bradleyi](../_dbase_upl/araneusb_nm.jpg)
Photo: Nick Monaghan lifeunseen.com
Green form, Gippsland
![Araneus bradleyi](../_dbase_upl/araneusduncanfraser.jpg)
Photo: Duncan Fraser
Green and white form
![Araneus bradleyi](../_dbase_upl/nickmon7423578420_6a89aa9f00_b.jpg)
Photo: Nick Monaghan lifeunseen.com/