Oval Saint Andrew's cross spider
The oval Saint Andrew's cross spider is a big, bright web spider from south-east Asia. The female has an oval yellow body with black stripes and silvery hair on her front part. She sits in her web with her legs held in pairs, making the shape of an X.
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The female is up to 30 millimetres long, but the male is only 5 to 8 millimetres.
Its web has a special zigzag band of thick silk in it, which makes the spider easy to recognise.
Argiope means silver face, because of the silvery hairs on its head part.
It usually builds its web about 1 to 2 metres above the ground.
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The female grows to 23 to 30 millimetres long, while the male is tiny, only 5 to 8 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope aemula
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Oval St Andrew's cross spider
Where the facts come from
- Argiope aemula (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 Vinayaraj. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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