Small cross spider
The small cross spider is a colourful little spider from Asia. It weaves a round web and decorates it with four zigzag bands of silk that make the shape of a cross. Its body has yellow and brown stripes and little silver spots.
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Fun facts
The females are much bigger than the males, up to 12 millimetres long while males are only about 4.
Its silver spots come from bunches of tiny white silky hairs on its body.
Its legs have dark rings and lots of little black spines.
Its name minuta means small, because it is smaller than its relatives.
Most asked questions about Small cross spider
?Why does its web have a zigzag cross?
It weaves four zigzag bands of silk into its web, and together they make the shape of a cross.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope minuta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Argiope minuta (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 池田正樹 ( talk )masaki ikeda. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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