St Andrews Cross Spider Bite. St. Andrews Cross Spider (Argiope keyserlingi) Spider Identification - adult 5 to 15 mm in body length - abdomen striped yellow and brown - as illustrated A member of the orb weaving family, the St Andrew's cross, like its orb relatives, is known for creating circular-shaped webs.
St Andrew's Cross Spider The Australian Museum from australian.museum
A male (left) and female (right) St Andrew's cross spider (Argiope keyserlingi).Image credits: Graham Winterflood/flickr These are usually secured by silk wrapping into a neat parcel before being bitten - although smaller prey may be bitten first.
St Andrew's Cross Spider The Australian Museum
Argiope keyserlingi is a species of orb-web spider found on the east coast of Australia, from Victoria to northern Queensland They have obvious yellow, white and brown horizontal stripes across the abdomen and have the habit of resting in the middle of their webs upside down, with their legs grouped in pairs to form a cross (as in the flag of St Andrew - flag of Scotland). Spider Identification - adult 5 to 15 mm in body length - abdomen striped yellow and brown - as illustrated
Meet the St. Andrew's Cross Spider. Color: Females' carapaces are yellow and gray with black and red bands, while the upper part of the having two yellow horizontal stripes.Males differ in coloration of the body as they are a combination of cream and brown with the same longitudinal stripes. The prey of the St Andrew's Cross Spider includes flies, moths, butterflies, bugs and bees
Nuno Lopes St. Andrew's Cross Spiders (photography). excepting the fright of walking into their large web and the spider crawling over the person involved. Andrew's Cross Spider is very similar in appearance to the closely related north Queensland species, Argiope aetherea (another common, large orb-web spider).