Garden cross spider
The female garden cross spider is bright yellow with three black stripes across her back, and her legs are banded brown and yellow. She sits head down in the middle of a round web. The male is small and brown.
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Fun facts
Its web has a bright zig-zag band of silk in the middle.
If something disturbs it, it drops to the ground and climbs back up when all is quiet again.
The male does not spin his own web. He lives at the edge of the female's web.
To win a female, the male shakes her web fast and for a long time.
Most asked questions about Garden cross spider
?Where does the garden cross spider live?
In southern and eastern Asia, often close to people in gardens and around drains.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope pulchella
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Argiope pulchella (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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