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Big hairy beauty in the back garden, canny really get a pic if his back due to his web position, only his undercarriage.
Any ideas what he is? He certainly enjoys a wasp or 2 for dinner!...
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Guatemalan Deathwrangler.
Run.
Harry it's his coming out party.
Wolf spider maybe?
Looks like Louise to me, run away........
Looks like a wolf spider to me.
(Araneus diadematus) Common garden spider? This time of year the females are getting big ready for the role is Charlote's web.
Looks like a garden spider - nice colouring.
Common Garden Spider - a big female. Wolf spiders don't build webs as such; they run down their prey on the ground, hence the name.
Another vote for common garden.
Incredible creatures and stunning to look at.
Eating the aforementioned wasp.
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Your lawn is badly out of focus.
Get close to her and give her a gentle blow and see what she does?
😉
Order opiliones, not actually a member of the Araneae(spider) family. They have little mandibles to consume their prey or foodstuffs, rather than sucking them up like spiders.
Also, they are quite interesting, behaviourally. I remember watching a large one take on the cat and win in a stand off over the food bowl. It looked like it knew exactly what it was doing..
Yours looks like a male [i]Odiellus spinosus[/i]
Interesting, thanks!
Nobeer's is a Garden Orb Weaver, there's lots of them in the family, around 2300 or so, and they can and do bite, one bit me years ago while I was playing with it! Ungrateful beast, I used to catch flies to feed it as well. Fantastic web weavers, especially when there's mist around to settle on the web.
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/garden-spider
And it's almost certainly a female, they're much bigger than the males.
There's another one in the front garden CZ, Even bigger than 'martin' out the back.
I watched him devour a wasp again last night, but surprised they can bite the way he went about it.
Edit - defo, both have that white dotted cross on their backs.
Any ideas what he is
You sexist pig. 😉
Girly spiders are just as scarey as blokey spiders you know.
Girly spiders are just as scarey as blokey spiders you know
and bigger generally.



