Sunday, September 28, 2008

arachnids

Halloween is around the corner so I thought I'd share our resident spiders found outside the house and I hate to disturb nature, but thought someone might be able to ID them
Found on the front porch with prey spun up:



Found hanging out at the boys window (It looks like an orb weaver, but doesn't eat its web):


with flash for details:

I'm thinking that this is an Araneus diadematus more commonly known as one of the orb weaver spiders or European Garden spider (even though we're not in Europe)

1 comment:

g-girl said...

that thing is huge! I think there's one in the tree in our backyard and possibly one in the tree in the Kindergarten playground!