Common garden orbweb spider
The common garden orb web spider is a big, colourful spider from Africa. From above, its body is bright yellow with black stripes and a knobbly outline. It spins a round web low in the bushes and waits head down in the middle.
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Fun facts
The female is about 25 millimetres long, but the male is only about 6 millimetres.
It often decorates its web with a thick zigzag band of silk.
It uses the same web for several days and fixes it when it gets damaged.
After rain, people once found an Argiope city with 50 to 60 webs in the bushes, probably because there were lots of grasshoppers.
Its legs have stripes of light and dark colours.
Most asked questions about Common garden orbweb spider
?Why do girl spiders look so much bigger?
Females are about four times longer than males, which is common in orb web spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope australis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Argiope australis (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 Hanni Hanni. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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