Comments & ID Thoughts
I would like to know about the species, it looks really cool (and if harmless she's going to be a guest in my backyard)
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- Submitted: Apr 22, 2018
- Photographed: Apr 22, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),On Flower
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi, and welcome to the site. Your spider is one of he orb weavers in the Araneidae family, called a silver Argiope spider, Argiope argentata species. Nice find:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2033/bgpage