#4399 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Yellow Garden Spider

🇳🇱 Zwartgele argiope ·Argiope aurantia

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Patrick Coin · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © WanderingMogwai · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nikonian Novice · CC BY-ND 4.0
4. © Eric Neubauer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Anna · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 5365 CR 326, Lexington, Lee County, TX, USA:© Linda Jo Conn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 3100 Pleasant Grove Dr, College Station, TX, US:© zoe_renee · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Jubilee Trail, Austin, TX, US:© nativenomadics · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Oklahoma, US:© Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Kentucky, US:© M. Whitson · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider , black and yellow garden spider , golden garden spider , writing spider , corn spider , or McKinley spider . It is common to the contiguous United States, Hawaii, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. It has distinctive yellow and black markings on the abdomen and a mostly white cephalothorax. Its scientific Latin name translates to "gilded silver-face" (the genus name Argiope meaning "silver-face", while the specific epithet...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 113,649iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
113,649 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833 (193 years ago).