A family member saw this spider in her garden in the Cape Town area of South Africa. It's very attractive and I wondered what species it was?
Approx size is that it would fit roughly on a 3cm diameter circle.
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$\begingroup$ Welcome to Biology.SE! For identification questions please edit your post to include the size this spider. This can be helpful for narrowing down possible species. Thanks! 😊 $\endgroup$– tyersomeJan 16, 2020 at 21:54
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Based on the location and image you provided, I suspect this spider to be Garden Orb-Weaver, belonging to the spider family Araneidae.
Just a side note: I used an app called iNaturalist to identify this spider. It is a helpful app to identify insects and plants.
Here is a similar image I found online:
