Comments & ID Thoughts
Ventral view of female banded garden spider (Argiope trifasciata). This is my guess. It looks like no one has reported sighting this spider in Iowa yet!
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- Submitted: Sep 14, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 9, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Anita, Iowa, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
It looks like a Argiope aurantia (yellow garden spider), but it’s hard to be 100% without seeing the other side.