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Argiope bruennichi, commonly known as the wasp spider, is a species of orb-weaver spider found across Central and Northern Europe, several regions of Asia, plus parts of the Middle east, North Africa and the Azores.
Argiope bruennichi is commonly known as the wasp spider. In Australia , Argiope keyserlingi and Argiope aetherea are known as St Andrew's cross spiders , for their habit of resting in the web with paired legs outstretched in the shape of an X and mirroring the large white web decoration (the cross of St. Andrew [ 2 ] having the same form).
The wasp and the spider grapple with each other, rolling over and over. The wasp apparently stings the spider indiscriminately in the abdomen until the spider ceases to struggle. The wasp then stings the spider in the midventer of the prosoma, and then between the chelicerae. The wasp then examines the spider's mouthparts before stinging it ...
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 female wasps excavate the shallow burrows with their legs, place a paralyzed spider into the burrow, lay a single egg on the spider (usually on the spider’s abdomen) and then cover over and ...
Spiders, unlike insects, have only two main body parts instead of three: a fused head and thorax (called a cephalothorax or prosoma) and an abdomen (also called an opisthosoma). The exception to this rule are the assassin spiders in the family Archaeidae, whose cephalothorax is divided into two parts by an elongated "neck". In the majority of ...
A few defend themselves against wasps by including networks of very robust threads in their webs, giving the spider time to flee while the wasps are struggling with the obstacles. [73] The golden wheeling spider, Carparachne aureoflava , of the Namibian desert escapes parasitic wasps by flipping onto its side and cartwheeling down sand dunes .
The rest of the body is mostly black. It is one of the species of jumping spiders that are mimics of mutillid wasps in the genus Dasymutilla (commonly known as "velvet ants"); several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration, and possess a very painful sting.