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Orb Weaver

Argiope savignyi

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Notes:

There's an orb weaver spider with a white back in the middle of the white X in the web.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)

Ava, it's added to the animal architecture mission. I forgot about that one.
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378
Good point Ashley:-)
Very cool! All spiders need to make an X like that, then I might stop running into their webs and accidentally destroying them!
Thanks RiekoS and Lauren. In this case X marks the spot not to go if you're a bird or bat:-)
Very time consuming X that it made, but worth his time, since it shows so well. No bird or bat will fly into that!
Thanks for the help Burnuhwill and Sckel. After doing a little searching on the net, I came up with a good match for Argiope savignyi on these 2 sites. http://test.whatsthatbug.com/2012/09/08/writing-spider-from-costa-rica/ http://minibeastwildlife.blogspot.com/2011/10/cost-rica-aranas.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_argentata
definitely an Argiope. possibly A. catenulata

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