Signature Spider

Description:

I had not seen this male Argiope luzona, in our backyard, prior to this morning. He seems to have just turned up during the night. Of course, despite his very small size, he is a mature male and has probably sensed the presence of a number of females in the backyard. I could see that he was eating some kind of small insect, but I could not get my camera into the right position to get a photo of the prey.

Habitat:

This Male Signature Spider was spotted in our backyard. Its web was moored between two Banana Plants (Musa x paradisiaca L.) known throughout much of the Philippines as Saging, but in the local dialect, where I live, it is called Batag. Plant information - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Saging.html......