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Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, [2] [3] black and yellow garden spider, [4] golden garden spider, [5] writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider. [6] The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833.
The spiders are golden orb-weavers, meaning they create webs with a slightly golden appearance to catch bugs and sometimes small animals to feed on. Male Joro spiders are relatively small, with ...
Some states have more than one designated insect, or have multiple categories (e.g., state insect and state butterfly, etc.). Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect. More than half of the insects chosen are not native to North America , because of the inclusion of two European species ( European honey bee and ...
Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising 4706 described species in 620 genera worldwide. [2] This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the ...
Joro spiders, venomous flying spiders, have made their way to the U.S. from Asia. Are they coming to Ohio? Here's what we know.
The species Bagheera kiplingi was described as herbivorous in 2008, [8] but all other known species are predators, mostly preying on insects and other spiders, although a few large species also take birds and lizards.
Cicadas are insects found in North America, consisting of more than 3,000 species. They're between an inch and two inches long, with small bristle-like antennae and four clear wings, and some of ...
Because morphology is so similar between taxa, species identification is extremely difficult. For this reason, the main form of taxonomic identification used in the past has been close observation of distinctive copulatory structures of males, (although this method is now thought by some entomologists and taxonomists as giving insufficient ...