| 1. | Their orb webs can have diameters of up to 70 cm.
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| 2. | This is suspended among foliage well away from the orb web.
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| 3. | It also avoids the energy loss of weaving a large orb web.
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| 4. | Unlike in orb webs, all cells in the web are rectangular.
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| 5. | Males also build orb webs, often near the webs of females.
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| 6. | Unlike many araneids, they do not spin a typical orb web.
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| 7. | The legs of orb-weaver spiders are specialized for spinning orb webs.
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| 8. | The usually dome-shaped platform is a non-sticky orb web.
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| 9. | This still leaves open questions relating to the origin of the orb web.
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| 10. | It is found in woodland habitats where it spins orb webs in herbaceous vegetation.
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