'Red' Garden Spider

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:23 am

I wa about to leave the shed last night and this caught my eye hanging near the window.
Its a garden spider(Araneus diadematus) and shes a beauty,possibly gravid too!

I had to climb on top of the freezer and push my loupe into her web then hold the camera roughly over where the image formed! She hardly moved!

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:42 am

Did you ask her to join your spider zoo

I don`t know if I would have gotten that close

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:57 am

No i decided to leave her as she was, she looks like she may be full of eggs tho and Dad must have been working nights