This is a Golden Silk Orb Weaver Spider.

This extraordinary spider is a common sight here in Costa Rica. It is long living and can make webs up to six meters wide if left un-disturbed. In the past, tribesmen of the South Pacific actually used the bigger webs as fishing nets, creating these by passing a curved stick through the giant woven structures.
         I have myself walked into the webs and found it possible to back out of them carefully again without them breaking. The large female spider is not accustomed to bite unless particularly provoked, whereas the small male who is always nearby has a painful bite that would cause discomfort.
        
         The web itself is spun from two separate amino acids, namely glycine and alanine. When woven together these simple proteins create a web stronger than steel and more flexible than nylon.
        As well as being formidable web weavers these spiders also excel in their created capacity to excrete a pesticide which naturally deters ants, who would normally be their greatest preditors.
        These amazing creatures have not gone un-noticed by manufacturers who are currently looking for ways to farm these webs for a multitude of applications.
         Just another of the wonders I come across every day in this jungle paradise that is Costa Rica.

This was taken using my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

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