Unidentified

Picture ID 31019

Picture of unidentified spider
  • Submitted by: 
    Vlado
  • Submitted: Aug 25, 2018
  • Photographed: Aug 25, 2018
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Danilovgrad , Montenegro
  • Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
  • Found in web?: Yes
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Simstim

Beautiful shot of this one. Looks like a standard Black and Yellow Garden spider aka Argiope aurantia. That is as close as I can get. I may just stop at Argiope as I am not sure the proper taxonomy for one in your area. They are scary and pretty. They eat bad bugs and annoying flying insects. They tend to spend a lot of time during midday time to evening and can remain motionless. When threatened they will rock the web forwards and backwards quickly to create a harder to identify insect so they don’t get eaten. I think this… Read more »

BugmanDan

Hi and welcome to he site. Simstim is on the right track, but I might suggest this is a banded garden spider, Argiope trifasciata species, just like a gal I had one season.
https://spiderid.com/spider/araneidae/argiope/trifasciata/

Simstim

I appreciate your help. I see so much variety in these, I have a lot to learn.

TangledWeb

Hi Vlado, I agree with your identification of your spider as Argiope bruennichi. We don’t see photos of it as often as A. aurantia, so not all of us are aware it exists. The main difference in appearance seems to be A. bruennichi has wavier horizontal lines, possibly different feet. There isn’t a way to add photos to a previous post. You can make a new posting and say that it goes with picture number 31019 and we should be able to figure it out.