When I see these everywhere and my snake hooks get covered in their thick webs when walking across the common, I know Autumn is just around the corner.
A Sign Autumn is En Route
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Great pic there, the field maple in my garden is colouring on the sunny side and there is a noticeable touch of cold air now.
It's amazing what you can do with a phone camera.
The spiders aren't the ginormous size they get to yet, but it's only a few weeks off now. I have to use my stick to break through their webs, otherwise my trousers get covered in big scary spiders. It's really difficult to get the webs off the stick afterwards they are that tough. Saw a hornet take out a decent sized spider too, but as I got close it flew off, spider and all.
Adders were thin on the ground and I went an hour without seeing one. Sat down underneath a silver birch to eat a pasty, and just glanced around to see a big female sitting about two feet away from me. She was there for a good five minutes while I negotiated the rest of my lunch.
Notice the tail gripping the grass. They do this so they have the option of reversing and can also put momentum into a turn or strike by having an anchor point. Brilliant animals.
The spiders aren't the ginormous size they get to yet, but it's only a few weeks off now. I have to use my stick to break through their webs, otherwise my trousers get covered in big scary spiders. It's really difficult to get the webs off the stick afterwards they are that tough. Saw a hornet take out a decent sized spider too, but as I got close it flew off, spider and all.
Adders were thin on the ground and I went an hour without seeing one. Sat down underneath a silver birch to eat a pasty, and just glanced around to see a big female sitting about two feet away from me. She was there for a good five minutes while I negotiated the rest of my lunch.
Notice the tail gripping the grass. They do this so they have the option of reversing and can also put momentum into a turn or strike by having an anchor point. Brilliant animals.
Little details like that are why I love this forum - I'd have never spotted that!
Lovely pic - what a stunning looking creature.
Interesting pictures there JonathanD, i have a couple of those critters living in the back of my van ( the Spiders not the snake..lol) , nothing like opening the van door in the morning and getting a face full of web.Yuk.
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Garden, Cross, Diadem or Orb web spider.... Araneus diadematus
Last year when I was herping, I walked between two gorse bushes and smack into a web. It's tough thick stuff that is hard to get off. When I found that the maker of the web (a ginormous brute) was trapped between my nose and web and wiggling like crazy, I must have caused so much fuss that some ramblers thought I was having a fit.
Last year when I was herping, I walked between two gorse bushes and smack into a web. It's tough thick stuff that is hard to get off. When I found that the maker of the web (a ginormous brute) was trapped between my nose and web and wiggling like crazy, I must have caused so much fuss that some ramblers thought I was having a fit.
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It's funny you should mention spiders, because today I was enjoying a walk in the sunshine next to a ploughed farmers field. I looked across the field with the sun shining on it and I noticed literally hundreds of spiders webs sparkling back at me as far as the eye could see. Now any other time you probably would not have seen them, but the sun just caught the webs at the right angle. It made me realize that there must be thousands of little spiders living in this field lying in wait for there next meal.
It's funny you should mention spiders, because today I was enjoying a walk in the sunshine next to a ploughed farmers field. I looked across the field with the sun shining on it and I noticed literally hundreds of spiders webs sparkling back at me as far as the eye could see. Now any other time you probably would not have seen them, but the sun just caught the webs at the right angle. It made me realize that there must be thousands of little spiders living in this field lying in wait for there next meal.
Yeah, it's also the time of year when the spiderlings make flight threads and wait for a stiff breeze and take to the skies to spread their genes far and wide. Some fields can appear to be flooded with water due to so many webs rippling in the wind and being caught by the sun. An amazing sight.
i remember being a kid and knowing autumn was on the way as it was slighly chillier in the morning and i always got a face full of webs whilst doing my paper round
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