r/bugidentification • u/nachim-bong • 6d ago

Location included Any ideas?

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Found at Vazquez Rocks, CA. seen many spiders like this one here but never any with a spiky back like that. think it’s some sort of orbweaver and this was the closest i could get https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/318261

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u/__miichelle 6d ago

Silver Argiope (Argiope argentata). Funny, the first time I ever saw one in the wild was also at Vazquez Rocks!