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Took this picture today while out climbing, not sure what version of spidey it is but I thought it was beautiful.
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I think it might have been feeding on something.
How big was it?
Did you let it bite you? Can you now climb up the walls?
@eyerideit: I'd say it was about as big as a 10p (maybe a bit less but it was certainly bigger than a 20p).
@Taff: I'm currently scaling the walls driven by my OH insisting that we watch X Factor bullcrap.
It's an orb spider (common garden I reckon) of some kind I'm sure. Roper to the thread please! 😀
We've got a garden full of spiders at the moment but none as nice as that.
Nice photo.
It does look like an orb spider( from the Araneidae family). Probably a common garden orb, [i]Araneus diadematus[/i] but can't be sure without a dorsal view. The UK is well into spider season now so you should see some stunners around.