Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) September 2019 © Pete Hillman.
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Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) September 2019 © Pete Hillman.
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Beautiful Pete! Love it!
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Thank you Anki! I am pleased you like it so 🙂
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It looks all too real, Pete. Yikes!
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It sure is Sandy!
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I’m curious how big this spider is.
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The body is around the size of a pinky fingernail. They do vary in size, and this one is probably still growing.
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Thanks. I like spiders but don’t see too many of them here in Alaska.
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Maybe I don’t want a garden shed after all…
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… but think you won’t have any flies 🙂
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A real beauty, Pete.
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Thank you Greta!
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Scary! 😳
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Very creepy-looking indeed, but the great well-lit shot is a winner anyway.
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Thank you very much Vicky 🙂 She was hanging in the shed window.
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She’s a pretty little thing, isn’t she? Nice shot, Pete.
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She sure is Eliza! Thank you 🙂
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I like the focus and colours here!
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Thank you Indira 🙂 I am so pleased you have seen beyond the spider and the colour layers in the background 🙂
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Pretty spider…yes, some of us do consider them attractive. 🙂
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Thank you Steve! Yes we do! 🙂
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Cool shot of the spider. I think they are quite scary but I sometimes just have to take a shot of them anyway 😉
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Thank you very much!
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Great image Pete. The focus is spot on. Really well done!
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Thank you very much Lane!
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Great shot of this oh so hairy guy 🙂
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Thank you!
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I wonder why it has such spiky legs? You’ve never seen a truly hideous spider unless you’ve been in the tropics. I’ve seen some horrendous (huge) spiders here in Florida. How big was this one?
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This was only small … about the size of your pinky nail.
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Pretty but eeeeekkkk!
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Nice and small, my favourite size. I have lots of these inoffensive critters in my garden. Unlike the objectionable beast staring at me from my bedroom wall last night. There was no-one to safely evict it for me, so I took my bedding downstairs and slept on the sofa. 😯
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Yep, there are a lot of these Garden Spiders around, and will be more of the House Spiders like the kind that unfortnaely made you sleep downstairs. They can be quite intimidating, but they are only after a date, usually males searching for females.
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I think this was a female. It was occasionally slipping off the wall then scrambling back on a thread then glaring at me. I would have preferred for it to do its courting outside.
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I can imagine!
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