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Argiope lobata
Female (photographed) is large and spectacular. About 2,5 cm in body length with legs of the same length or more. Pale in color on dorsal side, while the ventral side is marked with black and yellow spots. The abdomen carries deep furrows and distinctive lobes around the edge.
Thrives and was observed in garrigue, soft-leaved scrub-land of Mediterranean.
This female suspended her net in stems of lone lavender in our garden, and I was able to observe her during few days - until the children games drew her away... However, during these few days, I notice that she was a remarkable predator - every day there were new cocooned corpses of bees and even some smaller butterflies lying under her net.
Spotted on Jul 16, 2015
Submitted on Aug 11, 2015
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