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What kind of spider would you say?

FireFire Posts: 17,116
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A pumpkin perhaps?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 24,484
    Pretty enough to hang off the Christmas tree😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 17,116
    edited October 2020
    I'll pass on your compliment.

    @wild edges  - marbled orb weaver - ?
    A very distance cousin of the hermit crab.
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,485
    I thought they were garden spiders with the cross on the back. I like pumpkin spider better though.
    Wearside, England.
  • FireFire Posts: 17,116
    edited October 2020
    It's also called the 'Pumpkin spider'. 
    Also Araneus diadematus.

    So it seems to be some kind of orb weaver, but not sure which.


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