At Home with The Cucumber Green Spider

A female Cucumber Green Spider (Araniella cucurbitina sensu lato) has pulled two leaves of my Fatsia together and fixed them with silk to make itself a little retreat. As we peer through an opening where the leaf has curled we can see an egg-sac intricately woven of wiry strands of silk.

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Rear garden, Staffordshire, England. July 2017.

07/1707/17 by Peter Hillman Categories: Animals, Animals (Invertebrates), Arachnids, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Photography, Spiders, Wildlife PhotographyTags: Arachnids, Araniella cucurbitina, Cucumber Green Spider, Cucumber Green Spider Araniella cucurbitina sensu lato retreat, Macro, Macro Photography, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, Spiders, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography 7 Comments