Florida garden spider
Argiope florida
The Florida garden spider is an orb weaver. That means it spins a big round web that looks like a wheel. It lives only in a few places in the south-east of the United States.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Only some parts of the south-eastern United States
What does it eat?
It eats insects that fly into its sticky web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Florida garden spider about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its round web has threads that go out from the middle like the spokes of a bike wheel.
2
It lives in a much smaller area than most spiders, only in a few parts of the south-east United States.
3
Like all spiders, it has eight legs and spins silk from the back of its body.
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Most asked questions about Florida garden spider
?Where does the Florida garden spider live?
Only in some areas of the south-eastern United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope florida
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Florida argiope
Where the facts come from
- Argiope florida (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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