Garden Spider

Araneus diadematus

TQ4792 01/09/2024 ©Raymond Small

Garden Spiders are a familiar sight during autumn when they make webs on hedgerows. If disturbed the spider vibrates the web until it becomes a blur presumably this is to bewilder potential predators. As well as being known by the alternative name of the 'Garden Orb-Web Spider', it is also referred to as the 'Cross Spider' due to the cross marking on  the dorsal abdomen.

TQ4792 20/09/2017  ©Mike Rumble

TQ4692 03/06/2023  ©Raymond Small

A nest of young Garden Spiders.

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