Thanks Mark, insight much appreciated.

Assuming mating has or will eventually takes place, should I be looking for an egg sack? If so how soon.

Thanks for the information Douglass

Now that puts a different light on it ……….

I wonder if I can sex the other spider although to my, very, untrained eye, they looked quite different types.

Although thinking about it, here is what I saw (please remember I know nothing about spiders).

Both spider advanced and retreated from each other up and down a web thread. After a bit of mutual front leg waving the female (assume for the moment it was female) hung motionless while the male spent some time advancing and retreating waving its front legs. The male then leapt on to the female who suddenly became active quickly threw the male off. It was then the male’s turn to hang motionless for a few minutes.

The whole sequence was then repeated one more time before they retreated to either end of the plant ……….. so maybe it was mating

I’ve posted a pic of the underside of the other and larger spider.

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Thanks for taking the time to comment kpmac and napabob

Thanks Brenda.

I was going to ask the obvious ….. so I looked it up, “boxing gloves on the end of arms” is a vision that will stick with me for some time ……..

I agree with Geezer Bill, the pollen is spectacular