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Yellow Garden Spider

Argiope aurantia

114,032 observations in the source records

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28 photos

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 1,775, February 1,698, March 1,928, April 3,659, May 2,242, June 2,859, July 3,592, August 3,716, September 3,834, October 2,165, November 1,665, December 1,614.
United States90,486
Texas27,800
North Carolina7,629
Canada6,761
Virginia4,729
Ontario3,766
Georgia3,423
Maryland2,530
Oklahoma2,517
South Carolina2,397

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyOrbweavers · Araneidae
GenusGarden Orbweavers · Argiope

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