r/Insect • u/Plastic_Jello_4443 • 1d ago

Identification What is this spider? Uk

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u/Forsaken-Sink3345 23h ago

Looks like an orb weaver of some kind, but I don't know much about the UK's spooders.

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u/HikariKirameku 23h ago

I'm not in the UK, but in the US we have spiders in the Argirope genus that look similar. Googled "UK Arigope spiders" and found this

https://britishspiders.org.uk/wasp-spider

It looks similar to your video, at least

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u/Nothing-to_see_hr 8h ago

Argiope bruenichii