St.Andrews Cross Spider (Argiope aurantia) vs Dragonfly

(this is not! A banana spider... it still kicks ass...)Watch the awesome, huge Golden orb "St.Andrews Cross Spider" make an easy meal of a dragon fly.
This spider is famous for it's ultra tensile polymer web, still being investigated by scientists world wide. Stronger than steel and kevlar.
Watch her wrap a dragonfly with silk and begin to feed.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• spider
• web
• insects
• arachnids
• arachnidae
• silk

[t3hh0r53]

quality sucks

[jadcooper]

Yeah it does suck, but hey, it's a spider video...duh

[jr9950]

I believe some large species of dragonfly actually attack and kill spiders with their powerful jaws. This was a little guy.

I do know one thing, I have seen a few of these spiders lose a quick battle to a mantis.

[jadcooper]

2 things - A mantis in Texas isn't that big and I hate to tell you this, but every entomologist knows that the dragonfly eats flying ants, gnats, mosquitoes, and mayflies etc A.k.a flying insects... A suicidal dragonfly...unlikely.

[TonyGunz99]

this is why i dont go outside anymore...unless its winter and all insects are suffocating under the blankets of icy hell

[JayT98]

My wife's friend was running through the woods oneday and happened to run into one of these things. The spider was trapped in her hair and she was going nuts. We finally killed the spider but comes to find out it had a bunch of little babys on its body so my wife's friend was picking baby spiders from her hair for weeks. She says she could feel them crawling on her scalp. She almost went and got all of her hair shaved off because of it.

[orionintelligence]

@JayT98 Those spiders aren't dangerous for usa and they bite rarely, only if cornered. YOU DON''T HAVE TO KILL THEM!!

You can keep on of those spiders in your hands without great problems and without fear: i love Argiope class spiders, they aren't aggressive and they are so beautiful...

They kill a lot of flyng insects, they are useful to our gardens.

You don't have to kill them, ok?

[Noodles37UK]

@HoCuSXPoCuSXMCR Mantids are amazing and they like climbing up people. They're all harmless :) I keep them often.

[WalkThePath87]

That spider is doing WORK son

[orionintelligence]

@ceddin515 Yeah, here in Italy too. If you dream one of this, you'll be lucky at work, or on money or in love stories; if you kill one of this spiders, you'll be unfortunate!!

Another thing: mith say that those spiders aren't dangerous and aggressive against humans because they bear the name of St. Andrew...

[YoyoFlamingo]

@t3hh0r53 this was back in 2006, you prick... did you expect it to be in 1080p?

[TheMegaPixel2011]

The video quality suxxxs! (Just kidding)

Great video! But why would you keep a spider like that in your backyard, get some WD40 and kill it before it breeds! Damn nature, you scary.

[ceddin515]

theres a myth that says that these spiders give you money or something like that!

[jameswpeet]

This dragonfly must have been fairly small...I saw a larger dragonfly fly int one of these webs and the wasp had its work cut out for it. The spider was a goner from the start but by the time the battle was over there was not much left of the web and the cocoon that the black widow had woven and the black widow itself were just dangling. I wonder if they both just died of exhaustion...the dragonfly was no where near dead, although firmly bound, and the spider seemed to be sapped in the end.

[joemcbobinite]

so are orb weavers,banana spiders, and this st andrew fuck all the same spider? cuz i heard the banana has super toxic poison blah blah supposed to be fairly new, but everytime i see a vid of one it always looks like the gold orb weaver spider. ive actually seen that one in real life but so far they all look alike and theyre still sick.

[HoCuSXPoCuSXMCR]

@jr9950 Dude I saw I HUGEEEEEEE mantis next to a web of one of these things the other day. It was scarier than the spider, but the spider is quite beautiful.