Signature spider
The signature spider is a yellowish, hairy spider with brown stripes on its five-sided tummy. In the middle of its round web it weaves a thick zigzag of silk that looks like someone's handwriting. That is how it got its name.
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Fun facts
The female always rests in the very middle of her web with her head pointing down.
Her web has a little hole in the middle. If she is scared, she slips through it to the other side.
Males are much smaller than females, only about 4 millimetres long.
One egg sac can hold from 400 to 1400 eggs.
Most asked questions about Signature spider
?Why is it called the signature spider?
Because the zigzag silk in its web looks a bit like written letters.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argiope anasuja
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, South America
Where the facts come from
- Argiope anasuja (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 AKHIL GOPAN PG. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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