Saturday, June 24, 2006

Argiope aurantia

Argiopes are also called "garden spiders" and sometimes "writing" spider for the zigzag web. It is the only spider that makes a zigzag line or a cross of zigzag white web material in its web.
I found this one building his web on an azalea. The body was about 3/8" long from head to tail.


A small insect provides a meal.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like the way the spiders web looks. I have never seen a spider like this one.