Lots of spiders around - Pregnant or Fat ?

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Theres a lot of spiders around - an AWFUL lot. Everywhere. Some look quite normal - others look either really fat from lots of flying insects getting caught or are pregnant.

Managed to take 300 odd photos and come away with a dozen. Before smashing my flashgun because I answered a text. Never again! (answering phone)

1..
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2.. this one was actually upside down and looks much better rotated around
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3.. they never seem to look at me :(
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4.. this one seems to have a face??? Looks a bit Gray-Alien?? where's scully when you need her!!
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Thanks for popping in
 
Paul Iddon said:
Dunno if she's up the duff, but by 'eck I like the way you show the web to the right. great photo Carl.

Paul.
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cheers paul, had one fat body thats for sure, one of the shots got her threading the web from her behind (or whatever that area is called) - was scampering around repairing her web for some reason, think I poked a hole with it using my diffuser
 
#1/2 are excellent and detail in 1 is what makes it.

These spiders are a little too common to have much interest but always good to keep your eye in.
 
Tintin124 said:
#1/2 are excellent and detail in 1 is what makes it.

These spiders are a little too common to have much interest but always good to keep your eye in.
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cheers bryn - common isnt the word, they are everywhere. Just wondering if the first one is pregnant or just been feeding really really well? Any ideas?
 
Carlh said:
cheers bryn - common isnt the word, they are everywhere. Just wondering if the first one is pregnant or just been feeding really really well? Any ideas?
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No idea I'm afraid the abdomen is a lot larger than what you normally see so could easily be pregnant. Though there are some massive spiders in my garden at the moment.
 
I did read that due to the warmer weather this year in UK the spiders will grow bigger.
Great pics as always.
 
First one looks like a pregnant female garden cross spider. The spiderlings are an amazing black and yellow when they hatch.
 
Alastair said:
First one looks like a pregnant female garden cross spider. The spiderlings are an amazing black and yellow when they hatch.
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am going to have to pop back and see if there are any babies around, will they be near the web (on the web perhaps?) or somewhere safe out of harm's way? Really interesting stuff
 
Carlh said:
am going to have to pop back and see if there are any babies around, will they be near the web (on the web perhaps?) or somewhere safe out of harm's way? Really interesting stuff
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Hi Carl. I got a few pics of I think a wolf spider with hundreds of babies on her back, I'll post tonight / tomorrow.
With your spider I don't have a clue but you will find them somewhere.
 
Carlh said:
am going to have to pop back and see if there are any babies around, will they be near the web (on the web perhaps?) or somewhere safe out of harm's way? Really interesting stuff
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I think you'll need to wait for spring for the young - I may also be wrong about whether she's technically pregnant or whether she's just laid in a lot of reserves for surviving winter. I photographed juvenile Araneus diadematus in March a couple of years ago, according to the EXIF. Really worth looking out for..



The cross that gives them one of their common names is very clear when you look at them from above (you can see it here and here).
 
Some informationon the garden/cross spider here and here. We've hundreds of them in the garden at the moment, and I keep retriving more and more from around the house and putting them out. According to these sources the one you've photographed will be a female and should be laying her eggs somewhere sheltered to hatch in the spring. The mature adults won't usually makeit through the winter - although as we had no real frosts here last winter I wonder if one of the reasons we have so many this year is that last year was somild and favourable to them and their prey.
 
Great set Carl. I think I like the 2nd one best for composition reasons, and it was a good decision to rotate it.
 
Hi Carl ...love that second one...well sort of love it ...it is a spider :eek: :)

I was only saying the same thing myself at the weekend ...the garden seems to have been invaded by huge spiders at the moment all eating equally huge creatures....I found one at the weekend eating a giant moth. I was hoping they will all stay in the garden ...but then I read Alan's post so it's a double :eek::eek:
 
Great set of shots Carl, but not sure I'd want them hanging on my wall! :eek:
 
Excellent set Carl. I've also noticed the spiders are larger this year. There was a "giant" house spider on the wall of our house last night. HUUUGE it was.
 
IanClark said:
Excellent set Carl. I've also noticed the spiders are larger this year. There was a "giant" house spider on the wall of our house last night. HUUUGE it was.
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Same here I have had a screaming wife for the last couple of days. Some reason when she is so nervous it makes me nervous though I'm not at all scared of spiders. Lol
 
IanClark said:
Excellent set Carl. I've also noticed the spiders are larger this year. There was a "giant" house spider on the wall of our house last night. HUUUGE it was.
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Thanks everyone - Ian, any big spiders in the house, I quietly pick them up and put them outside. Dont want to photograph the one's inside the house in case they do a runner, then theres NO way Im sleeping knowing its wandering around, waiting for me to sleep with my mouth open lol
 
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