Striking yellow-and-black Wasp Spiders are expanding northward across Europe, trading Mediterranean heat for thriving new colonies in grasslands thanks to shifting climates!

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It was misty this morning up on the heath. The dew made the spiderwebs very conspicuous, including the canopies protecting these WASP SPIDER egg sacs! Wasp spiders on my local heath! I am absolutely thrilled!! #WaspSpider #Spiders #Devon

Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)

Wasp Spiders are great mimics, looking just like a common wasps

Found in S England, but spreading North

The web has a wide, white zig-zag strip running down the middle, known as a 'stabilimentum', the function of which is unclear

#Spiders #Arachnids #WaspSpider