Bark-hugging Saint Andrew's cross spider
Argiope ocyaloides
The bark-hugging Saint Andrew's cross spider is a small, dark brown to black spider from Queensland. It hides in cracks of dark tree bark. Its back end is long with a pointy tip.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Queensland in Australia, on the bark of eucalyptus and acacia trees
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Bark-hugging Saint Andrew's cross 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
It hides in cracks of dark bark on eucalyptus and acacia trees, where its dark colour helps it blend in.
2
It is smaller than most of its cousins, the other Saint Andrew's cross spiders.
3
Its long back end ends in a sharp point, which helps tell it apart from a similar spider.
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Most asked questions about Bark-hugging Saint Andrew's cross spider
?Where does the bark-hugging Saint Andrew's cross spider live?
In Queensland, Australia, on the dark bark of eucalyptus and acacia trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope ocyaloides
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Bark-hugging St Andrews cross spider
Where the facts come from
- Argiope ocyaloides (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 G. Winterflood. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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