Lobed argiope
The lobed argiope is a striking spider with a silver body edged with wavy lobes and marked with black and red spots. It hangs head-down in the middle of its big round web all day long. Its web often has a bold zig-zag of white silk.
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Fun facts
The female can be up to 25 millimetres long, but the male is only about 6 millimetres.
It builds its web low down in sturdy bushes that can hold its weight.
The deep grooves and lobes around its body give it its name.
It lives in so many places that it is not in danger.
Most asked questions about Lobed argiope
?Why does the lobed argiope have a zig-zag in its web?
Many argiope spiders decorate their webs with zig-zag silk. Scientists are still finding out exactly why.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope lobata
- Named by
- Pallas, 1772
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Black-lobed garden orb-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Argiope lobata (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 Javier Virués Ortega. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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