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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.
Phidippus audax are commonly referred to as "bold jumping spiders" or "bold jumpers". [8] The species name, audax, is a Latin adjective meaning "audacious" or "bold". [8] This name was first used to describe the species by French arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, who described the spider as being, "very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it". [9]
Males are dark green-olive and have a narrower abdomen, with red sides and a red to red-brown median stripe bordered yellow. [8] Young spiders have a yellow-brown cephalothorax, with dark marginal and median stripes. Only after the last molting in the following spring the juveniles assume the typical coloration of the adults.
“The hobo spider can inflict a painful bite that results in localized red swelling and some pain, but no necrotic lesion,” Potzler says. Usually, symptoms will get better within 24 hours with ...
It is often very hard even for a searching human to spot this spider on a yellow flower. [9] These spiders are sometimes called 'banana spiders' because of their striking yellow color. [10] Females have light complexions, either white or yellow with darker sides. They may have some markings on the abdomen that can be brown or red.
In North America, Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, zipper spider, corn spider, or writing spider, because of the similarity of the web stabilimenta to writing. The East Asian species Argiope amoena is known in Japan as kogane-gumo.
Female Joro spiders are yellow and black, with a body about the size of a paperclip and legs that can stretch up to 4 inches from one side to other. Male Joro spiders are smaller and brown.
Phidippus johnsoni, the red-backed jumping spider or Johnson jumping spider, is one of the largest and most commonly encountered jumping spiders of western North America. It is not to be confused with the unrelated and highly venomous redback spider ( Latrodectus hasselti ).