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Old 26-09-06, 11:04 AM
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Looks like a fatter version of this fellow I photographed in my garden a few months back...



Garden or Cross Spiders - Araneus diadematus - UK Safari

Unfortunately he seems to have gone the same way as a few of my ex-girlfriends - ie. started off cute but gradually put on a lot of weight and ending up with a massive arse!
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Old 26-09-06, 11:24 AM
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Found this little critter in my garden today. I have never seen one like it before!

It's about the size of a 10p piece.

Anyone know what it is?
Errrrmmm, it looks like a spider to me...

Ok, I'll fetch mi coat....

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Old 26-09-06, 11:27 AM
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Errrrmmm, it looks like a spider to me...

Ok, I'll fetch mi coat....

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We have an absloute plague of these things in our garden - there must be hundreds of them. I hung the dive gear out to dry on Monday and when I came to take it in at the end of the afternoon, it looked like somethimng from a horror film - absolutely covered in cobwebs. Walking from our kitchen door to the shed yesterday, a distance of about 30 feet, I had to knock down 14 webs.

I've never known so many of these things around. The neighbours are having the same problem. Is this just Bedfordshire or are other parts of the country similarly affected?
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i think they're everywhere... i have about 30 in my front garden in chester, one with a bad habit of stretching her web across my front door at head height! i love the things as there's far too many flies about...

only trouble is there's none in my back garden, probably down to the 4 chickens patrolling the fence like the velociraptors outta jurassic park eating them all...

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Yep got millions of them myself, beautiful webs but common as muck, they are poisonus but the toxin wont harm us and the word is thier fangs are not strong enough to penetrate our skin. which is a result as far as i`m concerned.
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Yep got millions of them myself, beautiful webs but common as muck, they are poisonus but the toxin wont harm us and the word is thier fangs are not strong enough to penetrate our skin. which is a result as far as i`m concerned.
Oh well looks like I'm stuck with the kids until the next tarantula pops out of the banana box then
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Oh well looks like I'm stuck with the kids until the next tarantula pops out of the banana box then
Sorry to disappoint you but tarantulas aren't all that poisonous. Now redbacks or Balck Widows are something else!
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Yep, looks like a "Aaneus diadematus" tome to, but it could be a " Araneus grossus " as well but I donīt think it cares.

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Lots of the horrible creepy things in my garden too. They dont half make a mess when ya splatter them
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