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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: growmore on October 16, 2008, 11:18:58

Title: Can anyone identify this spider
Post by: growmore on October 16, 2008, 11:18:58
I found this on my gooseberry bush..It seemed quite large ..I can't find it on google ..Can anyone identify it ,,,

(http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9540/dscf0185ol5.th.jpg) (http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0185ol5.jpg)(http://img257.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this spider
Post by: Baccy Man on October 16, 2008, 11:36:59
It may be an Araneus Diadematus
(http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/AranDaidematus3.JPG)
Or an Araneus Quadratus.
(http://arachnophiliac.info/burrow/gallery/other/images/araneus_quadratus_middleton.jpg)


They both come in a very wide range of colours & are likely to have swollen abdomens at this time of year because they are about to lay eggs.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this spider
Post by: N8R on October 18, 2008, 12:50:20
its an orange one
;D