This is a huge European garden spider that I came across in the park – thankfully not so near to home!

I thought the European spiders I’d spotted in the garden were large (by UK standards, you understand), but this was so large and round, I almost didn’t believe what I saw at first glance.

The spider was wrapping up it’s freshly caught lunch, sitting in the middle of an enormous web. The web was quite close to the ground at the edge of some bushes and I was relieved to have spotted it, just before I walked into it!

More about the European Garden Spider…
Day 118: European Garden Spider: Up Close
Day 85: Must Be Spider Season

More Spiders…
Day 198: Skywalking…
Day 197: Spider Walks The Line
Day 193: Spider Eating Fruit Fly
Day 190: Web of The Spider
Day 188: Spider Eyes, There’s Eight Right?

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