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Hawaiian Garden Spider

Argiope appensa

7,582 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) svdr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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What the records say

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Hawaii.January 348, February 309, March 407, April 261, May 197, June 175, July 193, August 139, September 159, October 188, November 197, December 277.
Hawaii4,185
United States2,409
Guam908
Indonesia458
West Java169
Philippines167
Central Visayas91
Special Region of Yogyakarta87
Bali67
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands65

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

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Hawaiian Garden Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.