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Signature Spider
Argiope luzona
15.456, 119.922
Field Notes
Description:
When I spotted this Argiope luzona (female) this afternoon, it was around 4:00 p.m. and the sunlight was just at the correct angle to show her web reasonably well in my photo. Argiope spiders are known for weaving large orb webs which are beautiful to see, in reality, but difficult to show in a photo. Obviously, if the whole web is shown, the spider would appear very small in the middle. So, I decided to try displaying as much of the web as possible, without making the spider too insignificant.
Habitat:
This spider was spotted in our backyard, on its web, moored on some pot plants under a mahogany tree.
Notes:
This A. luzona has made a very small stabilimentum (web decoration). It has only one very short zigzag "arm". I think that, in the terminology used in scientific descriptions, this decoration is called a One-armed Discontinuous Cruciate Stabilimentum. That is just fine in a scientific document dealing with numerous stabilimenta of various configurations, but in the context of just one decoration here, it might be acceptable to just call it a One-armed Stabilimentum.
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