ST. ANDREW’S CROSS SPIDERS

Description:

Spotted next to my garden hose he seems happy enough there. Very pretty pattern on him as well,We get so many of these around the house.

Notes:

family Araneidae. The St. Andrew’s cross is a garden spider that is usually seen in a circular web with a cross pattern in the centre. The female spider is about 15 mm in body length. The carapace is silver grey and the abdomen has bands of yellow, red, white and black. The male is much smaller (about 5 mm) and is black and greyish. When the female spider is at rest in the middle of the cross in the web, it has its legs paired so that each pair rests on a strand of the cross. Flying insects such as flies, butterflies, damselfies, bees, and moths are trapped by the web. The spider rarely bites