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Garden Spider (was - Name that Spider!)

ManyQuestions · 2012-09-28 19:06:08

Hi, Spider living in my boat, any ideas what type it is? thanks

28-09-2012 7:06pm

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Hi,

Spider living in my boat, any ideas what type it is?

thanks

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#2 28-09-2012 8:34pm

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a garden spider. These are the ones that you'll be seeing on petrol station canopies. My local stations has 10s of spiders living side by side on one giant web made from individual webbs

Mark

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#3 29-09-2012 12:15pm

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Really? Its some lump of a thing! cheers

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#4 29-09-2012 4:19pm

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Mark is right; Araneus diadematus. When fully grown, they are big and sometimes brightly coloured (orange);
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#5 29-09-2012 10:10pm

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It'll be full of eggs right now

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